Exceit / Exceat / Excete / Exsetes / Exsett

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18276EXC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Extinct parish annexed to West Dean; located near Seaford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Additional Comments: fragment of a font reported ca. 1859 / disappeared? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Walcott (1859) reports a church in the extinct parish of Exceit, "now annexed to West Dean [...] In the year 1587 [...] the church was still standing [...] to the right hand of the highway leading from Seaford to Friston. It was a very small edifice, and I have in my possession a fragment, in green sandstone, of a very ancient font, which was found some time since within the foundations of the ancient church." The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 3, 1935) entry for the Cathedral of Chichester Close notes: "Bishop Robert Sherburne early in the 16th century made further changes in the cathedral establishment. He founded four residentiary canonries with the prebends of Bursalis, Windham, Exceit and Bargham in 1523."

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Walcott, Mackenzie, A Guide to the Coast of Sussex: descriptive of scenerey, historical, legendary, and archaeological, London: Edward Stanford, 1859, p. 170