Wisborough Green No. 1

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2132662] [accessed 7 February 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of all the columns of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2132662] [accessed 7 February 2013]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2008 by tristan forward [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1588056] [accessed 7 DFebruary 2013]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2009 by Charlesdrakew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisborough_Green_Church.JPG] [accessed 7 February 2013]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph [1990?] The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-wisbo.html] [accessed 29 January 2010]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15913WIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter ad Vincula

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Wisborough Green, West Sussex, RH14 0DZ

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A272, 4 km W of Billingshurst, 8 km NE of Petworth, 32 km NNW of Worthing

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundreds of Bury, Rotherbridge and West Easwrith -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [altered], Norman [altered]

Church Notes: church restored by Butterfield in 1867-1868

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Harrison (1920) reports a baptismal font of the Transitional period in this church; he further notes a "stoup in the old N[orth] wooden porch (late 13th c)". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The font is located at the W[est] end of the nave. It is made from local limestone, except for the four corner shafts, which are of Sussex marble. They may be modern. The bowl is square, shaped like a cushion capital, with a rebate around the top, as if to receive a lid. The interior is circular and lead-lined. Staples from a lock survive in the SE and NW spandrels of the upper surface, and there is a chip on the NW corner. The lower part of the bowl is moulded to form capitals for the fat central column and four angle columns that support it. These have water-holding bases. This stands on a low, rectangular plinth." [cf. Index entry for Wisborough Green No. 2 for the 13th-century stoup in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.022861, -0.501707

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 22.3″ N, 0° 30′ 6.14″ W

UTM: 30U 675207 5655337

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [cf. FontNotes]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Diameter (inside rim): 49.5 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm* [includes modern plinth]

Trapezoidal Basin: 63 x 63.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]

REFERENCES

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: 2010-01-29 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.