Chichester No. 2 / Noviomagus Reginorum
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of church exterior in context
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view of church exterior in context
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view of church interior - mosaic - detail
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view of church interior - monument - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2025 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - altar and retable
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view of church interior - looking west
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11519CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: copy of Shreham font? [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: church of 1076
Church Address: Chichester PO19 1PX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1243 782595
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Chichester is located off the A259, 11-12 km NW of Bognor Regis
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chirchester
Additional Comments: copy font / replica font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Gough (1792) describes the font at the cathedral of Chichester as "octagon against a pillar". Corlette (1901) writes: The font under the south-western tower is a copy of an old one in the church at Shoreham. It was the gift of Bishop Durnford, as a memorial of his wife." [NB: not clear which 'Shoreham' font this refers to: the font at Old Shoreham is a square cushion-capital type; the font at New Shoreham is square, of the table-top type]. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 3, 1935) notes that the nave of the cathedral "is in the main of the early-12th-century period", but the only font in it is modern. The official web site of the Cathedral [www.chichestercathedral.co.uk] describes the current font: "polished polyphant stone and beaten copper by John Skelton (1983)"]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 656323 5633922
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.83587, -0.779922
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 9.13″ N, 0° 46′ 47.72″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corlette, Hubert C., The Cathedral Church of Chichester: a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see, London: George Bell & Sons, 1901, p. 85
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 193