Winchelsea
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior
Scene Description: in 2004
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Winchelsea/WinchelseaStThomas2004.htm] [accessed 24 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Scene Description: in 2004
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Winchelsea/WinchelseaStThomas2004.htm] [accessed 24 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Scene Description: in 1864
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2009
Image Source: 1864 photographic print by Francis Frith (1822-1898) in the British Library Online Collections [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/earlyphotos/s/006zzzcup410g10u00007000.html] [accessed 24 December 2011]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font in 2004
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Winchelsea/WinchelseaStThomas2004.htm] [accessed 24 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17812WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas the Martyr [aka St Thomas-à-Becket]
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Location: High Street, Winchelsea, East Sussex, TN36 4EA
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Rye, 13 km NE of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of this church and modern font
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Winchelsea in the Domesday survey. Harrison's (1920) entry for this church reads: "Restored in 1850 and 1905 [...] This fine portion of a church is the best example of Dec[orated] work in Sussex", but reports the font as modern. The Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Winchelsea/WinchelseaStThomas2004.htm] [accessed 24 December 2011] notes: "The [modern] font, once in St Nicholas Chapel, is now in the lady chapel which was restored as part of the War Memorial. The unusual cover of carved oak was a gift by public subscription in 1952." [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the late-13th and early-14th century, but we have no information on its medieval font].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 338977 5643996
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920