Isfield
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2011 by The Voice of Hassocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Margaret%27s_Church,_Isfield_%28IoE_Code_296359%29.JPG] [accessed 22 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18281ISF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: Isfield, East Sussex TN22 5XP, United Kingdom
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km SSW of Uckfield, NNW of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Loxfield Dorset -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920), who does not mention a font in this church, dates it originally of the Early English period, restored in 1876. The present font is Victorian and was probably installed during that restoration. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 293056 5647760
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.944263, 0.054067
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 39.35″ N, 0° 3′ 14.64″ E
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 136-137