East Lavant
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1637859] [accessed 25 March 2013]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2012 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_East_Lavant_%28NHLE_Code_1354517%29.JPG] {accessed 12 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18175LAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Pook Lane, Lavant, West Sussex, PO18 0SA
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A286, between Chichester and Midhurst
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Westbourne and Singleton -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one noted in the VCH footnote)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes a fine Norman west door in a mostly Early English church building, but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The present nave is of the 12th century, the north aisle was added in the 13th, and the tower in the 17th [...] The chancel is of three bays and has buttresses to the east, north, and south; it was much altered, or more probably completely rebuilt, in the 19th century. [...] The font [...] and other fittings are modern." The VCH entry (bid.) adds in a footnote: "Add. MS. 5699, fol. 244, has a drawing of the ancient font, which had a square basin on five shafts, evidently 12th-century." The present font is located at the southwest corner of the nave. [NB: we have no information on the wehereabouts of the old font, though it was probably discarded in the 19th-century re-building of the church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 656032 5637892
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 141