Preston nr. Brighton / Bisshopes Preston / Prestetone
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: church and manor, side by side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Preston_Manor,_Brighton_-_Lawn_to_Rear_%28and_St_Peter%27s_Church%29.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09977PRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 2 km NW of Brighton, now part of Brighton and Hove
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Preston -- Rape of Lewes -- formerly Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, ca. 1920 [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
Church Notes: Now redundant and owned by the Redundant Churches Fund
Font Notes:
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There is one entry for this Preston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ3006/preston/] [accessed 19 July 2014]; it mentions a church in it. Harrison (1920) reports "an old disused font" in this church. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940 ) notes: "A church was attached to the manor of Preston in 1086 [...] and probably stood on the site of St. Peter's church, just above the manor-house. [...] The church is [...] all of the end of the 13th century [...]The church was gutted by fire in 1906, and was subsequently considerably restored. [...] The font is modern, but an earlier font had been formed out of two odd shaft-stones and a marble bowl from an 18thcentury garden feature." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one in a group of "font bowls buried in churchyard or adjacent vicarage garden". [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the medieval church here after 1920]. [all other churches in Preston are modern, 19th- or 20th-century].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8423, -0.1495
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 50′ 32.28″ N, 0° 8′ 58.2″ W
UTM: 30U 700679 5636161
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-12-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 25