Bolney / Bolne / Bolneya
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Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Bolney/BolneyStMary2004.htm] [accessed 14 December 2008]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Bolney/BolneyStMary2004.htm] [accessed 14 December 2008]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Margaret and David Hall, 2008
Image Source: photograph [undated/uncredited] in http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~macculloch/p21.htm#i1153 [accessed 14 December 2008]
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: shows the font under the arcade that separates the new north aisle from the older nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Victoria County History, 2008
Image Source: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=56937&filename=fig92.gif&pubid=546 [accessed 14 December 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14097BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1100?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: The Street, Bolney, West Sussex RH17 5PG, UK
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NW of the A272-A23 cross-roads, 11 km SE of Horsham, 18 km N of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chirchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buttinghill -- Rape of Lewes - Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the medieval font here, replaced in 1853))
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) reports a modern font in this "possibly Saxon, or at least early Norman" church. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The church of St. Mary Magdalene has a nave and chancel of about 1100 [...] The north aisle, with the nave-arcade of three bays, was added in 1853 [...] The font is modern" [NB: the font is located near the second pillar of the arcade that separates the new north aisle from the older nave, and is therefore probably dated from that renovation, in 1853]. The on-line Church Guide [http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/bolney.htm] [accessed 14 December 2008] notes: "The font was installed in 1850 and replaced a 12th century font of Sussex marble which has regrettably disappeared". [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the medieval font].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 696256 5652414
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.9898, -0.2035
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 23.28″ N, 0° 12′ 12.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Sussex marble)
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. 67