Wivelsfield / Wifelesfeld / Wiuelesfeld / Wyvelesfeld
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
Scene Description: a Sheela-na-gig
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © William Bolitho, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in [http://williambolitho.blogspot.ca/2009/07/found-sheela-na-gig-in-wivelsfield.html] [accessed 6 November 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Charlesdrakew, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2009 by Charlesdrakew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wivelsfield_Church_2.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2012]
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view of church interior - southwest side
Scene Description: the modern font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2889833] [accessed 6 November 2012]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2889843] [accessed 6 November 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12038WIV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 3 Church Lane, Wivelsfield, Wivelsfield, West Sussex, RH17 7RD
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2112, 15 km N pf Brighton and Hove
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Streat -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Norman
Church Notes: a Sheela-na-gig is reported in the porch of this church
Hussey (1852) writes: "The old stoup is visible, but damaged, near the south door." There is no mention of a font in Harrison (1920) but he does note a "mutilated stoup in porch". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The church of Wivelsfield was given to the priory of St. Pancras at Lewes by the second William de Warenne about 1095. [...] Of the original late-11th-century church, only the north door from the nave remains, built into the modern north aisle." There is no font mentioned in the VCH entry for this church, but a holy-water stoup is reported by the south doorway, "a contemporary stoup with four-centred arch, the bowl has a mutilated outer edge" [ca. 1500]. The church plan displayed in the CRSBI (2008) [originally from Church Plans Online (NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium], shows the font in the west end of the south aisle, just west of the south entrance and east of the tower. This is a modern, 19th-century, font. [NB: we have no information on the original baptismal font of this 12th-century church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.970185,
-0.095769
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 58′ 12.67″ N,
0° 5′ 44.77″ W
UTM: 30U 703901 5650525
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-11-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2006-07-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.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
