Chailey / Chagelegh / Chaggeley / Chaglegh / Chaleghe / Chaley / Cheagele [Domesday] / Cheyleigh
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [wwww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2874726] [accessed 17 December 2012]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2012 by Basher Eyre [wwww.geograph.org.uk/photo/287544] [accessed 17 December 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18213CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Chailey, East Sussex BN8 4DA
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A705, 16 km N of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Streat -- Rape of Lewes, Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes the original Early English church here "Restored and enlarged in 1878-9"; he does not mention a font in it. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The church of St. Peter [...] the chancel and west tower [...] were built in the middle of the 13th century, and a south aisle was added in the late 14th century." There is no mention of font in the VCH entry for this church, but the interior plan shows a font -modern?- located at the west end of the south aisle. The present font consists of an octagonal basin with sides decorated with a trefoil or quatrefoil on each side, raised on an octagonal pedestal base and moulded lower base; probably dated from the late-19th century restoration of the church. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 709968 5649634
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Hildebrand, Bror Emil, Antiqvarisk Tidskrift för Sverige, Stockholm: P.A. Nordstedt & Söner, 1864, p. 83