Singleton nr. Chichester / Silletone

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - tower - south side - detail

Scene Description: "The tower and probably the upper part of the nave walls are of preConquest date" [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1142871] [accessed 25 August 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the top of the tower is barely discernible among the trees in the top-right area of the image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2019 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 August 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 18178SIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary [Harrison and the VCH have St. John the Evangelist [cf. FontNotes]]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [VCH has St. John the Evangelist [cf. FontNotes]]

Church Location: Church Lane, Singleton, West Sussex, PO18 0EZ

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A286, N of Chichester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Westbourne and Singleton -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: a 'hundredal' church, the central church of the Hundred of Singleton, a Saxon administrative grouping of parishes [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Singletone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU8713/singleton/] [accessed 25 August 2019]; it reports a church and "3.12 church lands" in it. Harrison (1920) who gives the dedication of the church as St. John the Evangelist, reports a Perpendicular font in it. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "Singleton appears to have been, like Easebourne [...], a hundredal church; that is to say, an early 'missionary centre' with a number of subordinate chapels— East and West Dean, Binderton, Didling, Dumpford, and Chilgrove [...] —of which the first four became parochial churches. In 1086 the church was said to possess the unusually large endowment of 3¼ hides, worth £8 but actually yielding £10 to 'the clerks' who held it. [...] The tower and probably the upper part of the nave walls are of preConquest date; the chancel was reconstructed and a south aisle added in the 13th century [...] The font is octagonal, perhaps 15th-century".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9103, -0.7528

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 37″ N, 0° 45′ 10″ W

UTM: 30U 657981 5642255

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920