Ferring No. 2 / West Ferring

INFORMATION

FontID: 12012FER
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Lane, Ferring, West Sussex, BN12 5HN
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
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 Location in Church: In a buttress of the N aisle
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.812348, -0.447699
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 44.45″ N, 0° 26′ 51.71″ W
UTM: 30U 679803 5632063

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
Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998