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St Michael, Partridge Green, Sussex

Location
(50°57′42″N, 0°18′29″W)
Partridge Green
TQ 189 194
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex
now West Sussex
  • Kathryn A Morrison
  • Kathryn A Morrison
27 Aug 97

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Feature Sets
Description

Built in 1890, this church is faced in flint outside and red brick inside. It has a W tower, a single nave and a square chancel. The font appears to be its oldest feature.

History

The church was designed by Habershon & Fawckner and built in 1890.

Walker recounts a local tradition that the font came from Wilmington (Sussex). The VCH, however, reports that the font was removed from St Peter and St Paul, Ashington, to Partridge Green, before c.1950.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

Its irregular shape suggests that this font may have been a simple 12thc. tub, recut to create a more fashionable shape in the 13thc. or later.

Bibliography

Victoria County History Sussex vol. 6, part 2, 1986, p. 72.

A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English Fonts with Details of those in Sussex, London 1908, 122-23.