Brightling / Brislingham

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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

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

FontID: 16074BRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket

Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]

Church Location: The Street, Brightling, East Sussex

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Robertsbridge. 13 km NNW of Battle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Sussex

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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