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Image Source: B&W illustration in Lower (1853) reproduced in Sussex Archaeology [http://www.sussexarch.org.uk/saaf/pevensey.html] [accessed 10 August 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16844PEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicolas [originally from the burnt chapel of Pevensey Castle]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Church Lane, Pevensey, East Sussex, BN24 5LD
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in Pevensey Bay, at the junction of the A27 and the A259, just NE of Eastbourne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Pevensey -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Additional Comments: damaged font / disused font / buried font?
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) writes: "disused font, square ; stone bowl (stoup or mortar)" The Sussex Archaeology website [www.sussexarch.org.uk] informs that excavations carried out in 1849 at the burnt chapel in the Norman castle discovered: "in the centre of the Nave, a stone font. The top of a pillar piscina was also found at the eastern end of the nave." These two objects are illustrated in an article by Lower (1853). The font itself appears to have been a typical bucket-shaped tub on a circular plinth, the upper part of the font being very badly damaged.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 312414 5633145
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8196, 0.3368
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 49′ 10.56″ N, 0° 20′ 12.48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 161
- Lower, Mark Anthony, 1853, p. 278