Nuthurst nr. Horsham
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Nuthurst/NuthurstStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 24 October 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pete Chapman, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2005 by Pete Chapman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/86085] [accessed 24 October 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18206NUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: "church of ST. ANDREW, of which the dedication is recorded from 1506" [cf. VCH entry in FootNotes]
Church Address: Nuthurst St, Nuthurst, West Sussex, RH13 6LH
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km S of Horsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Singlecross -- Rape of Bramber - Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font: the font had been covered in plaster/mortar for many years -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Dudley (1836): "The font is plain and octagonal." Tyhere is no font mentioned in Harrison"s (1920) entry for this church, but he notes that a Norman was discovered in the north wall of the chancel here in 1898. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 3, 1987) notes: "There was a church at Nuthurst in the 12th century, as architectural evidence shows [...] altered 14th-century font". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 12th-century church here]. The Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Nuthurst/NuthurstStAndrew2004.htm] [accessed 24 October 2012] notes: "Until 1961, when the cover was being cleaned and gilded, it was discovered by accident that the font had been covered with a mortar rendering at some time in the past and that it was of ancient origin. [...], and is made of Purbeck marble".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 689226 5655728
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.021925, -0.301831
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 1′ 18.93″ N, 0° 18′ 6.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: polygonal base with raised scroll ribs around a pivot; ball finial; gilded [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Dudley, Howard, The History and Antiquities of Horsham, London: [s.n.], 1836, p. 53
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 156