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The church comprises a chancel, a nave with N and S aisles and a W tower. It dates from the 13thc. and later, with the S aisle being added in 1859-62 by R. C. Hussey.
Waldron is mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but no church. In 1908 Walker reported that this 'font' had only recently been found, being used as a watering trough in a farmyard. Traces of a lead lining were found, and it was moved to the church.
The broad, shallow proportions of this basin are unusual for a Norman font. Mee, in The King's England, Sussex, suggested that it is of Saxon date and compared it with the fonts of Selham and Bignor.
Rev. J. Ley, 'Waldron: its Church. its Mansions, and its Manors', Sussex Archaeological Collections 13, 1861, 80-103.
A Mee, The King's England, Sussex, 2nd edn, 1964, 203.
Not mentioned in I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex, Harmondsworth, 1965.
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A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English Fonts, 1908, 58-59.
