Shipley / Scapeleia / Sepelei [Domesday] (WSussex)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins in [www.roughwood.net] [accessed 3 January 2006]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins in [www.roughwood.net] [accessed 3 January 2006]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins in [www.roughwood.net] [accessed 3 January 2006]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Shipley,_West_Sussex_%28NHLE_Code_1180756%29.JPG] [accessed 29 October 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins in [www.roughwood.net] [accessed 3 January 2006]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12490SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: St. Erney (Cornwall)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: "The church of St. Mary (the dedication is recorded from 1456) " [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes] -- Templar church, later transferred to the Knights of St John of Jerusalem
Church Address: Church Close, Shipley, West Sussex RH13 8PH, UK
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the SW quadrant of the A24-A272 crossroads, 10 km NW of Storrington, 19 km N of Worthing
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of West Grinstead -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920), who does not mention a font in this church, writes: "The massive central tower with the chancel is nearly pure Nor., built early
in 1 2th c. by the Knights Templars and transferred to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the Early English period, the basin decorated with mouldings. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 2, 1986) notes: "William de Braose (d. 1093 x 1096) gave Shipley church c. 1080 to the abbey of St. Florent, Saumur (Maine et Loire), which granted it back to his son Philip c. 1096 in exchange for Washington church [...] Nothing is known of the building which existed c. 1080. [...] The nave, tower, and chancel date from c. 1140 and represent one of the earliest Templar churches in England." The VCH entry does not mention a font in this church. Octagonal font throughout, decorated with mouldings at the upper and lower rims of the basin, and the middle of the stem; stands on a two-step quadrangular plinth; wooden cover, a stylised version of the Jacobean ribbed font cover.
in 1 2th c. by the Knights Templars and transferred to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the Early English period, the basin decorated with mouldings. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 2, 1986) notes: "William de Braose (d. 1093 x 1096) gave Shipley church c. 1080 to the abbey of St. Florent, Saumur (Maine et Loire), which granted it back to his son Philip c. 1096 in exchange for Washington church [...] Nothing is known of the building which existed c. 1080. [...] The nave, tower, and chancel date from c. 1140 and represent one of the earliest Templar churches in England." The VCH entry does not mention a font in this church. Octagonal font throughout, decorated with mouldings at the upper and lower rims of the basin, and the middle of the stem; stands on a two-step quadrangular plinth; wooden cover, a stylised version of the Jacobean ribbed font cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 684593 5651374
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.984317, -0.370023
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 3.54″ N, 0° 22′ 12.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 180
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 90