Iping / Epinges
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B01:
design element - architectural - niche or window - pointed
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1738526] [accessed 1 August 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18122IPI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [earlier a chapel of ease to Stedham?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Iping Lane, Iping, West Sussex, GU29 0PF
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A272, 3 km from Elsted
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dumpford -- formerly Sussex
Century and Period: 17th - 19th century,
Harrison (1920), who does not mention a font in his entry for this church, writes: "Rebuilt in 1840 ; and again, except old tower, in 1888, on the foundations of a Nor[man] church." The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "in about 1190 Richard Musard, in return for his gift of land (see above), obtained from the prior and convent leave to dedicate a chapel at Iping and a cemetery for the burial of his men. [...] The church of Iping was valued at £5 in 1291 [...] The registers begin for burials and marriages in 1653 and for baptisms in 1664." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The present font consists of a round basin with a series of pointed niches all around, raised on a plain cylindrical column and a moulded circular lower base. The wooden cover has a flat round platform with eight scroll ribs around a turned pivot; knob finial. The font may be 17th-century or later, and so the cover. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.999194,
-0.787211
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 59′ 57.1″ N,
0° 47′ 13.96″ W
UTM: 30U 655265 5652066
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat round platform with eight scroll ribs around a turned pivot; knob finial
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-08-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
