Lullington nr. Berwick
Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 2001
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Lullington/Lullington2004.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A Morrison, 2001
Image Source: B&W photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/lulli/index.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Lullington/Lullington2004.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13448LUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Good Shepherd
Church Patron Saints: [present dedication is modern -- ca. 2000 -- earlier dedication unknown]
Church Location: Wilmington St, Lullington, Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 5QY
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A27, on the E banks of the Cuckmere River, across from Alfriston, 3 km S of Berwick, 6 km NE of Seaford, 15 km SW of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Eastbourne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net], for his photographs of church and font
Harrison (1920) writes: "This is considered to be the smallest church in England, measuring 16 feet square, but it is only a portion of the chancel of the original church, which may be traced westward"; he does not mention a font in it. The present font in this church is a composite object consisting of a large and crudely-rendered square basin, raised on a thin pedestal stem [modern?] and a quadrangular lower base or plinth. The wooden cover is square and plain, probably modern. There is much damage and repair to the sides of the basin. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The font is said to have been found, partly broken, in a neighbouring garden". A more recent [2004] photograph of this font can be found in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Lullington/Lullington2004.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.807,
0.167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 48′ 25.2″ N,
0° 10′ 1.2″ E
UTM: 31U 300402 5632189
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 6.5-7 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 45-47 cm*
Basin Total Height: 36 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 59-60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008) ]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
