Kingston-by-Sea / Chingestune / Kingston Bousey / Kingston Bowsey / Kingston Buci / Kingston Bucii / Kingston by Sea / Kingston by Shoreham / South Kingston
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2009 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Julian%27s_Church,_Kingston_Buci_%28IoE_Code_297311%29.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover visible on the left, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josie Campbell, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2009 by Josie Campbell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2484409] [accessed 22 October 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the basin and the cover in the foreground -- date of the postcard not available
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sussex OPC, 2013
Image Source: [www.sussex-opc.org/Postcard/Watermarked/Kingston-Bucci-Interior-1573_WM.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18200KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Julian
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Julian of Antioch
Church Notes: "The church of St. Julian, so called by the late 12th century," [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Church Address: St Julian's Lane, Shoreham-by-Sea, Kingston-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 6YW
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km E of Shoreham, 8 km W of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishersgate -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the church here as early as 1086) -- damaged and repaired font (the present one
Font Notes:
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Noted in Harrison (1920): "Font, plain square." In his entry for Southwick, Harrison (ibid.) remarks its font is similar to the one in this church. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1980) notes: "A church was recorded at Kingston in 1086. (fn. 30) The church given to the Templars by Simon le Count and confirmed to them by John le Count in 1206 was named as Kingston [...] but was evidently Southwick, which had been entered as Kingston in the Domesday survey. [...] The nave appears to survive from the 11th century. The tower and chancel, which are of equal width, survive from the 13th century"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this church. No font mentioned in the English Heritage record [IoE no.: 297311] for this church [www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=297311&mode=quick] [accessed 22 October 2012]. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church]. The present font consists of a plain square basin on a pedestal. It may be medieval, with much restored damage to the basin.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 693881 5634901
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8333, -0.2466
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 49′ 59.88″ N, 0° 14′ 47.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat square platform with verical crocketed ribs and cross finial; appears modern
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. 139, 192