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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 Morrison

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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

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. Walker recounts a local tradition that the font came from Wilmington (Sussex).

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