Catsfield No. 1 / Cedesfelle

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font visible at the west end, behind the bank of pews on the south (left) side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16075CAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka St. Lawrence]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka St. Laurence]

Church Location: Church Road, Catsfield, East Sussex, TN33 9BG

Country Name: England

Location: East Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B2204, 4 km SW of Battle, 10-12 km WWN of Hastings

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Harrison (1920) mentions a "double stoup at the S door" but not a font in this originally 13th-century church. The Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm] [accessed 20 February 2010] shows a baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides and a graded underbowl chamfer, raised on an octagonal pedestal decorated with trefoiled arches or windows, and a splaying lower base; on a rectangular plinth; the font is probably a late-medieval work, but it has been drastically re-tooled. The wooden cover is octagonal and plain, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the earlier church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.893606, 0.455558

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 36.98″ N, 0° 27′ 20.01″ E

UTM: 31U 321061 5641078

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: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920