All Saints, Mountfield, Sussex

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Location
(50°57′18″N, 0°28′2″E)
Site Location
Mountfield
National Grid Reference
TQ 734 202
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex now East Sussex
Diocese
medieval Chichester now Chichester
Dedication
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Kathryn A Morrison
Photographers
  • Kathryn A Morrison
Visit Date
1 June 1997; 8 June 2026

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Description

This small church, built from local sandstone, has a W tower, a single nave with a couple of Norman windows surviving in its N wall, and an Early English chancel. It also has a modern vestry (N of chancel), and a S porch (14thc.).

History

Mountfield was mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but no church.

Features

Interior Features

Arches

Chancel arch/Apse arches

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

As Walker and Pevsner have suggested, this was probably a large 12thc. tub font, recarved in the 15thc. or early 16thc.

Bibliography

I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Sussex, 1965, 569.

K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English Fonts, 1908, 60.