Slinfold

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 May 2017)
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view of basin - upper view
view of basin - upper view
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - west view
view of church exterior in context - south view
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 18307SLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Clapgate Lane, Slinfold, West Sussex RH13 7RR
Country Name: England
Location: West Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A29, 7 km WNW of Horsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Easwrith, rape of Arundel
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and the two objects noted above
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry for Slinforld found in the Domesday Survey. Harrison (1920), who does not mention a font in this church, writes: "The original church was built about 1230 by Bishop Ralph 11. of Chichester". The Sussex Parish Churches site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/560/33/] [accessed 4 February 2013] notes: "Font: Plain and octagonal. It looks modern, though it has been called C14". There are two objects in this church: a modern stone font consisting of an octagonal basin with cusped quatrefoils on the sides, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base; its round wooden cover is also modern. The other object is a stone fragment of a a square vessel of some sort; if it is at all liturgical, its proportions and the lack of drain suggest a holy-water stoup.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.071969,
-0.407055
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 4′ 19.09″ N,
0° 24′ 25.4″ W
UTM: 30U 681651 5661027
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920