East Lavant

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].