Wartling
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Wartling/WartlingStMary2004.htm] [accessed 6 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Wartling/WartlingStMary2004.htm] [accessed 6 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font and cover visible at the west end, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Wartling/WartlingStMary2004.htm] [accessed 6 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2004 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Wartling/WartlingStMary2004.htm] [accessed 6 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18312WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Horsewalk, Wartling, East Sussex BN27 1RY
Site Location: East Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km from Pevensey, 16 km SW of Battle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Foxearle -- Rape of Hastings -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920) notes the Early English date of the original fabric of the church, but mentions no font in it. The present font is modern, of the 19th century renovation of the church here, octagonal, with carved sides.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of the Roughwood British Churches Album, [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum] for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 313505 5637603
REFERENCES
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 207