Ferring No. 2 / West Ferring
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12012FER
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: In a buttress of the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Lane, Ferring, West Sussex BN12 5HN, UK
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A259, just 5-6 km W of Worthing
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Poling -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) reports a fine stoup as well as a 13th-century font here. Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "a holy water stoup in the N aisle inset in a large buttress". The illustration shows a trefoil-opening, like a window, providing access to the wall-mounted stoup. This same source (ibid.) dates it to the 13th-century Early English alterations to the original Norman church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 679803 5632063
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.812348, -0.447699
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 48′ 44.45″ N, 0° 26′ 51.71″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, wall-mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 110
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 68