West Stoke
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fenifur [Jennifer Porrett], 2012
Image Source: Font digital photograph taken 4 April 2012 by Fenifur [Jennifer Porrett] [www.flickr.com/photos/fenifursnippets/6961439668/] [accessed 19 September 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18188STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Downs Rd, West Stoke, West Sussex, PO18 9BN
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B2178, near Funtington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bosham -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No mention of a font here in Harrison (1920), who dates the church to the Eaarly English period. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The 11th-century church consisted of a nave and chancel; this was probably the second church mentioned in Domesday Book under Bosham. [...] In the 13th century the chancel was remodelled and extended, or, more probably, rebuilt [...] The communion table, font, [...] and other fittings are modern." The VCH entry (ibid.), however, notes: "The ancient font was tub-shaped, there is a crude drawing of it in Add. MS. 5699." [NB: the old font may have been removed in one of the renovations that ocurred in this church in the 19th century -- we have no information on its present whereabouts]. A 1937 plan of the church interior reproduced in the VCH (ibid.) shows a font located at the west end of the nave. A recent [April 2012] photograph of the church interior shows a modern font at the west end of the nave: octagonal basin with decorated sides, raised on a plain octagonal stem and a circular lower base. Flat wooden cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.871812,
-0.826761
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 52′ 18.52″ N,
0° 49′ 36.34″ W
UTM: 30U 652908 5637820
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-09-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920