East Lavington / East Woollavington / Levitone / West Woollavington / Woolavington
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern neo-Norman font
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the neo-Norman font visible in the northwest corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2647160] [accessed 31 August 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18160LAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [now a college chapel]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: The ancient parish church, dating to the 13th century, has become the chapel for Seaford College; the College was founded in 1884
Church Address: The Dr, East Lavington, West Sussex GU28 0NA
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A285, 6 km S of Petworth, between Dunton and Graffham, NE of Chichester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes the original Early English church and its restoration in 1833-1851, but does not mention a font in it. Described in Nairn & Pevsner (1965) as a "fearful mock-Norman" font in this church "cruelly restored by Street [...] Street would have done better to rebuild the lot" [G.E. Street, ca. 1870]. Baptismal font of Norman style but probably of the mid-19th century. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of the 13th-century church]. [NB: earlier sources put the church in Woolavington / Woollavington]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 664756 5645586
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.938333, -0.655
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 18″ N, 0° 39′ 18″ W
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 142
- Nairn, Ian, Sussex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965, p. 215