Plumpton nr. Lewes / Plompton / Plumtona / Pluntune

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forminf the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2706920] [accessed 5 November 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12027PLU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels [cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: Plumpton, East Sussex BN7 3AF
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NW of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Streat -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Noted in Hussey (1852): the font is perhaps Tr[ansitional] Norm [an], square, on a large round stem, with small shafts at the angles." Reported in Harrison (1920) as late-Norman. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The church of Plumpton is mentioned in Domesday [...] of unknown dedication but associated by tradition with St. Michael. [...] The nave dates from the early 12th century. [...] The font has a square bowl, marked 1710, with a late-12th- or 13th-century base; it has a central octagonal pedestal and angle shafts with roll capitals and bases." [NB: the "marked 1710" appears to refer to a graffito on the basin, the basin itself may be older, but it does not appear to be medieval].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.904941, -0.072302
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 17.79″ N, 0° 4′ 20.29″ W
UTM: 30U 705837 5643337

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-11-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852