Keymer / Chemere / Kiemera / Kimera / Kymer / Kymere

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].