Partridge Green

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 7 August 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church,_Partridge_Green.JPG] [accessed 25 October 2012] CCL INT NAVE EAST digital photograph taken 27 August 2011 by Kinnerton [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church_Partridge_Green_-_the_Nave.jpg] [accessed 25 August 2012] CCL FONT CRSBI B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-partr.html] [accessed 25 October 2012] NO PERMIT

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18208PAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Church Lane, Partridge Green, West Sussex,
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2135, 4 km NW of Henfield.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of West Grinstead -- Rape of Bramber -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (re-cut?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [altered]
Church Notes: the church itself is late-19thC
Walker (1908) refers to a local source that gives the origin of this font in Wilmingon, in the same county [cf. infra]. Harrison (1920) writes of the church here: "Built 1890-1. There is an old font here", without further details. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 2, 1986) notes: "the medieval font was removed before c. 1950 to St. Michael's church, Partridge Green". The moved font is described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "an irregular octagonal tub font, of unidentified stone, with a lead-lined basin. It stands on a roughly-hewn, square pillar. That in turn is raised on an octagonal plinth, probably dating from 1890. [...] Its irregular shape suggests that this font may have been a simple 12thc. tub, recut to create a more fashionable shape in the 13thc. or later." [cf. Index entry for Ashington, WSussex, for the possible original location of this font -- the strongest evidence appears to indicate nearby Ashington as the original location of this font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 689050 5648705

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 54.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2012-10-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908