Guestling / Gestelinges
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3187838] [accessed 17 January 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3187841] [accessed 17 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 18275GUE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka St. Lawrence]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Church Lane, Guestling, East Sussex,
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A259, 5 km NE of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Walcott (1859) notes: "The font is circular and plain." Harrison (1920) notes the Norman early-12th century church as restored in the 1880s, the interior re-built after a fire in 1890-1891; no mention of a font in it. Further restored in 2011 [cf. www.westfieldguestlingchurches.org.uk/index.php?p=1_47_St-Laurence-Restoration] [accessed 17 January 2013]. The Sussex Churches page [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/158/34/] [accessed 17 January 2013] informs: "Sir Stephen Glynne [1807-1874] noted a plain cylindrical one (SNQ 16 (Nov 1966) p267), but this one dates from 1914. It is octagonal with carved sides and a marble shafted base." The CRSBI (2008) mentions the fire of 1890 and the 11th-century date of the original church here, but does not mention the old font. [NB: a large fire destroyed most of the interior of the church on 25 March 1890; it is possible [likely?] that, if the older font had survived the 1880s restoration, it was destroyed in the subsequent fire].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.899808,
0.637086
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 53′ 59.31″ N,
0° 38′ 13.51″ E
UTM: 31U 333848 5641343
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2013-01-17 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Walcott, Mackenzie, A Guide to the Coast of Sussex: descriptive of scenerey, historical, legendary, and archaeological, London: Edward Stanford, 1859