Ovingdean / Hovingedene / Huuingeden / Ovingdene / Ovyndenne / Vuingeden
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Guillett, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2011 by Paul Gillett [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2218683] [accessed 15 November 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18247OVI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wulfram
Church Patron Saints: St. Wulfram [of Sens] [aka Wulfran]
Church Location: Greenways, Ovingdean, East Sussex, BN2 7BA
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B2123, 8 km ESE of Brighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Younsmere -- Rape of Lewes - Sussex
Font Location in Church: By the blocked N doorway of the nave
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Harrison (1920), who does not mention a font in his entry for this church, writes: "stoup near blocked-up Nor[man] door on N[orth] side of nave".
The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 7, 1940) notes: "There are no traces remaining of the earlier church, described as ecclesiola, referred to in Domesday Book, and this may well have been a small building of wood. If so, it must have been replaced by the present church within a generation after the Survey, as the existing nave and chancel were built, at the same time, at the very beginning of the 12th century. [...] The existing registers begin in 1705. [...] The font is modern and there are no ancient monuments." A church interior plan in the VCH entry for this parish shows a font, the modern replacement one, situated towards the west end nave, just west of the south entranceway. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.8157,
-0.0775
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 48′ 56.52″ N,
0° 4′ 39″ W
UTM: 30U 705864 5633402
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-11-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Darsy, M.F.I., "Description archéologique et historique du canton de Gamaches", T. 5 (2e sér.), Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie, 1858, pp. 157-390; r["References"]