Laughton nr. Lewes

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18283LAU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Lane, Laughton, East Sussex BN8 6AH
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km ENE of Lewes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Shiplake -- Rape of Pevensey -- Sussex
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Church] for his photographs of this church and modern font
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].

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