East Hoathly / Hegleghe / Hoglega / Odkelegh

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view of church exterior - south view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Dawson, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2003 by Stephen Dawson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7929] [accessed 22 January 2013]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16078HOA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Churchmarks Lane, East Hoathly, East Sussex BN8 6DN
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A22, 6-7 km NW of Hailsham, 8 km SE of Uckfield, 13 km NE from Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Additional Comments: disappeared font? disused font? (the one reported in Hussey; disused already ca. 1835)
Font Notes:
Hussey (1852) writes: "Horsfield (Lewes, II, 89) gives a woodcut of an ancient bowl, then, apparently, belonging to Mr. Wisdom, a resident of the parish. Of what material the bowl was formed is not stated, but the stem was decorated with a pair of large ram's horns." Harrison (1920) mentions the re-building of the church here in 1856, a time when the old font had probably already been in the location noted in Horsfield. [NB: the reference in Hussey is to Horsfield's 1835 Historia...] The Sussex Parish Churches site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/194/34/] [accessed 22 January 2013] reports a "C19 octagonal bowl with a quatrefoil on each side" inside this church [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of this 13th-century church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 301031 5645614
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.927801, 0.168611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 55′ 40.09″ N, 0° 10′ 7″ E

REFERENCES

  • Horsfield, Thomas Walker, The History, antiquities, and topography of the County of Sussex, Lewes [Sussex]: Baxter, Sussex Press, 1835
  • Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 239