Brightling / Brislingham
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Thomas_a_Becket%27s_Church,_Brightling_%28NHLE_Code_1352914%29.JPG] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mandy Willard, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2007 by Mandy Willard [www.mandywillard.co.uk/places/brightling/brightling.htm] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16074BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Address: The Street, Brightling, East Sussex
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Robertsbridge. 13 km NNW of Battle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Additional Comments: font not mentioned in www.roughwood.net -- disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes the church as Early English, "altered at later periods", and mentions no font in it. A font is noted in the Sussex Parish Churches website [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/119/34/] [accessed 20 February 2010]: "Font: Plain octagonal bowl, probably C15". [NB: we have no information on the font from the Early English period church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 317286 5648934
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: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 74