Laughton nr. Lewes

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Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken17 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/ChurchFrames.htm] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2940720] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view from inside the chancel; the basin of the modern font is visible at the back (west end), left (south side)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken17 October 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/ChurchFrames.htm] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the basin of the modern font in the foreground (west end), right (south) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2940730] [accessed 23 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18283LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Laughton, East Sussex BN8 6AH, United Kingdom
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km ENE of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Shiplake -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here?)
Font Notes:
The church is noted in Harrison (1920) as Early English restored in 1883; no font mentioned. The present font, octagonal and with decorated sides, is Victorian, probably from the 19th-century restoration noted above; it is located by the south doorway. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Church] for his photographs of this church and modern font

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