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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18243KEY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian
Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Church Location: 119 Keymer Road, Keymer, West Sussex BN6 8QS
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2116, 4 km S of Burgess Hill, 16 km NNE of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buttinghill -- Rape of Lewes -- Sussex
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
There is no mention of a font here in Harrison (1920), who notes a re-building of 1866 and an enlargement in 1899. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "The church of Keymer is mentioned in 1086, [...] and was granted to the Priory of St. Pancras at Lewes by Ralph de Chesney about 1093. [...] The parish church [...] has an apsidal chancel, with flint walls, of the 12th century, but the remainder of the structure was rebuilt in 1866 from the designs of Edmund Scott. [...] All the fittings are modern, but possibly a piscina(?) in the south-east of the apse is ancient." The present font is modern, a Victorian rendering of a medieval font design, consisting of a rounded basin mounted on a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes. The wooden cover is also of retro design, a round and plain platform with four raised scroll ribs around a central pivot. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the medieval font here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.921944, -0.130556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 19″ N, 0° 7′ 50″ W
UTM: 30U 701668 5645067

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-11-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920