Ninfield / Ninefield / Nirefeld
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2003 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ninfield/Ninfield2003.htm] [accessed 30 January 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2003 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ninfield/Ninfield2003.htm] [accessed 30 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2003 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Ninfield/Ninfield2003.htm] [accessed 30 January 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18296NIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid?), Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: three stone blocks found in the 19th-century restoration may have been part of the old north wall doorway of a much earlier church, pre-Conquest
Church Address: 32 Downs View, Ninfield, East Sussex TN33 9JW
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Battle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Ninfield -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes the Early English period church restored in 1885, but does mention a font in it. The Parish on-line guidebook [www.ninfield.org.uk/Nin guide.htm] [accessed 30 January 2013] notes: "The font. This is ancient and is plainly carved in stone. It has a late sixteenth/early seventeenth centuries cover carved in English oak. Inside, the bowl is lead lined. Projecting through the cover are two staples by which it could be locked on to the front." The font consists of a small moulded square basin raised on a pedestal base. [NB: a modern alabaster font is mentioned in the VCH entry for this church (Sussex, vol. 9: 249) -- we have no information on the font from the earlier church here]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 318721 5640404
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.886829, 0.422641
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 53′ 12.58″ N, 0° 25′ 21.51″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: raised scroll ribs around a centre pivot
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 155