Rustington

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view of basin - interior

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view of church interior - plan

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12032RUS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Sea Lane/The Street, Rustington, West Sussex, BN16 3NR
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A259, just E of Littlehampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Poling -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the N door [the main entrance to the church]
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Cox and the Parish of St. Peter and St. Paul, Rustington, for the photographs of this font.
Hussey (1852) suggests that "the piers and arches of the north of the nave, together with the font, seem to be Perp[endicular]. Harrison (1920) reports a 13th-century font in this church. The font is illustrated in the web page of the Parish of St. Peter and St. Paul, Rustington [www.sspeterandpaul-rustington.org.uk] as an octagonal mounted font probably of the 13th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.812453, -0.503906
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 44.83″ N, 0° 30′ 14.06″ W
UTM: 30U 675844 5631939

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining

REFERENCES

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