Uckfield / Uccafield

The Parish site informs: "There has been a church on this site since 1291, although it was originally a small chapel, but by the end of the fourteenth century a bell tower, chancel and east window had been added. [...] In 1839 this building was demolished save for the tower and a small part of the south wall of the chancel. At that stage William Moseley rebuilt the church increasing its size and height by adding a spire. The church was then dedicated to the Holy Cross. [...] In 1846 Uckfield became a parish, it having previously having been just a chapel to Buxted parish church. [...] The wooden oak cover to the octagonal font was carved and given by Ann Fanshaw in 1906." The present font is Victorian, the octagonal basin decorated with rectangular panelling, raised on a pedestal of the same shape decorated with inscribed neo-Gothic motifs, and an octagonal moulded lower base, all of it on a polygonal plinth.