Henfield / Hamfelde
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital font taken 9 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Henfield/HenfieldStPeter2004.htm] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Scene Description: a broad one all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital font taken 9 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Henfield/HenfieldStPeter2004.htm] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a thin one all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital font taken 9 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Henfield/HenfieldStPeter2004.htm] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
![EXT NE digital photograph taken 7 August 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter%27s_Church,_Henfield_%28NHLE_Code_1027400%29.JPG] [accessed 30 October 2012]
FONT digital font taken 9 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Henfield/HenfieldStPeter2004.htm] [accessed 30 October 2012] OK
FONT CRSBI B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-henfi.html] [accessed 30 October 2012] NO PERMIT](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130331016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT NE digital photograph taken 7 August 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter%27s_Church,_Henfield_%28NHLE_Code_1027400%29.JPG] [accessed 30 October 2012]
FONT digital font taken 9 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Henfield/HenfieldStPeter2004.htm] [accessed 30 October 2012] OK
FONT CRSBI B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-henfi.html] [accessed 30 October 2012] NO PERMIT
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter%27s_Church,_Henfield_%28NHLE_Code_1027400%29.JPG] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: serving as bases for the four round angle colonnettes of the base and the central quadrangular shaft
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital font taken 9 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/WestSussex/Henfield/HenfieldStPeter2004.htm] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-sx-henfi.html] [accessed 30 October 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18211HEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner, S aisle, in the 'Children's corner'
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: "church of ST. PETER (the dedication is recorded from 770)" [cf. VCH entry in Footnotes]
Church Address: Church Lane, Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9NY
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km from Shoreham, 20 km NW of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tipnoak -- Rape of Bamber - Sussex
Additional Comments: altered font? / damaged font? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 8thC church here)
Font Notes:
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In Walker (1908). Harrison (1920) reports the font as 13th-century. Noted in Drummond-Roberts (1935) with date in the 15th century. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 6, pt. 3, 1987) notes: "A church was founded in or before 770 by the thegn Warbald and his wife [...] In or before 1219 the rectory was converted to a prebend in Chichester cathedral [...] The nave and chancel are early 13th-century [...] The present appearance of the building owes much to a restoration of 1870-1. [...] A piscina and the octagonal font which rests on five shafts are 13th-century," Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The font has an octagonal bowl of unidentified stone, probably sandstone. Its rim has been replaced (in cement?), imperfectly matching the original. The basin is lead lined. The lower part of the bowl is chamfered and rolled, and a red tinge to the underside suggests that it suffered severe fire damage at some time. The bowl is supported by an octagonal central column and four round angle colonnettes, all of which appear to have been renewed. Three of the two-roll bases may be original; the fourth has certainly been replaced, as has most of the square upper plinth. The shallow lower plinth is modern. [...] The polygonal form of this font is strongly in favour of a date in the early 13thc., but the decoration at the bottom of the bowl is suggestive of hyphenated chevron. It is clearly related, formally, to the Sussex marble fonts, which abounded in late 12thc. Sussex. Drummond-Roberts [cf. supra] nevertheless dated it to the 15thc." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original 8th-century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of Roughwood British Churches Albun [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 691564 5645556
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.929786, -0.273881
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 55′ 47.23″ N, 0° 16′ 25.97″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43.5 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 98 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 108 cm*
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain, with metal Latin fleurdelise cross finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Drummond-Roberts, Maud F., Some Sussex fonts, photographed and described, Brighton: Southern Publishing Co., 1935, p. 43
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 126
- Walker, A.K., An introduction to the study of English fonts, with details of those in Sussex, 1908, p. 92