East Hoathly / Hegleghe / Hoglega / Odkelegh

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].