Warbleton

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - north view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 18311WAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Hammer Lane / Church Hill, Warbleton, East Sussex, TN21 9BD
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NNE of Hailsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Hawkesborough -- Rape of Hastings - Sussex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Harrison (1920) reports an early-15th century font in this originally Early English church. The font consists of a round tapering basin decorated with roll mouldings at top rim and bottom; raised on a cylindrical pedestal base decorated with two parallel roll mouldings at theop, and a moulded lower base; stands on a quadrangular plinth. Despite the late date suggested in Harrington [cf. supra], the font appears closer to late-13th-century designs in the area, The woden cover is flat and round, with ring handle, probably Victorian.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.94053,
0.288633
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 56′ 25.91″ N,
0° 17′ 19.08″ E
UTM: 31U 309516 5646713
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: N/Alead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf, FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Lewis, Bunnell, "The antiquities of Saintes", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 164-184; 215-243; r["References"]