West Firle

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover

Scene Description: the stem a possible re-cut from the 15th century; otherwise the whole is 19th-century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/WestFirle/WestFirleStPeter2004.htm] [accessed 15 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 18269FIR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: The Street, West Firle, East Sussex
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 8 km ESE of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Totnore -- Rape of Pevensey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century [stem only?] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of Roughwood British Churches Album [Www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Harrison (1920) reports a holy-water stoup at the south door but gives no details of it; no font mentioned. The present font consists of a modern (19th-century?) square basin decorated with a quatrefoil-in-a-circle on each side, raised on a square stem decorated with arches or windows; the stem appears earlier, probably from the Perpendicular period, but may have been re-carved; on a moulded square lower base of modern appearance. The flat square wooden cover is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.844997,
0.0882
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 50′ 41.99″ N,
0° 5′ 17.52″ E
UTM: 31U 295018 5636629