Crawley nr. Horsham / Craule / Crauleia / Crawle
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the columns of the base
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103221] [accessed 7 November 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Voice of Hassocks, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Crawley_%28October_2011%29.JPG] [accessed 7 November 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103218] [accessed 7 November 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2103221] [accessed 7 November 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18218CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: High Street/The Broadway, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 1HH
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located E of Horsham, 30 km N of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buttinghill -- Rape of Lewes - Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes: "The font is Perp[endicular] with peculiar ornamental panelling". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The only ancient parts of the structure are the south wall of the nave, probably of the 14th century, and its roof, a good example of early-16th-century construction. The west tower was added c. 1470 [...] The 15th-century font, in the tower, has an eightsided tapering bowl of marble with slightly panelled faces, and a cylindrical stem surrounded by four shafts with moulded capitals and bases, and a moulded main base. North of the west doorway is a holy-water stoup with a half-destroyed basin." [NB: we have no information on the font from the 14th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.113889, -0.188611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 6′ 50″ N, 0° 11′ 19″ W
UTM: 30U 696774 5666249
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat , with metal decoration
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-11-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920