Bodiam
Image copyright © Mark Colins, 2005
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: ca. 1852
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by Swaine in Hussey (1852) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bodiam_Church.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: August 2005
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Colins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2005 by Mark Collins of Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Bodiam/BodiamStGiles2005.htm] [accessed 14 December 2012]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Colins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2005 by Mark Collins of Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Bodiam/BodiamStGiles2005.htm] [accessed 14 December 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 18261BOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Sandhurst Road, Opposite Levitts Lane, Bodiam, East Sussex, TN32 5UJ
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Ewhurst and Sandhurst
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Sussex
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/], for his photographs of this church
Font Notes:
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The present font, of octagonal design, dates probably from the 19th-century. Harrison (1920), who does not mention a font in his entry for this church, notes that the chancel dates to the 13th century. [NB: we have no information on the original font here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 327394 5652705
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920