Bognor Regis

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18189BOG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Batholomew [aka Parish Church] [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Chichetser
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Aldwick -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (was there ever a font here?)
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "There was from early times a chapel at Bognor with the invocation of St. Bartholomew, dependent upon the parish church of Pagham. [...] This was stated to have been long standing unserved in 1384 when Archbishop Courtenay presented a chaplain. [...] the chapel of Bognor [...] fell into the sea". [NB: we have no information on whether this former chapel carried out baptisms at the time -- all other churches in Bognor are or were modern].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 663799 5628198

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.