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Maresfield is a village in the Wealden district of East Sussex, on the N side of Uckfield. The church is in the village centre and has a Perp W tower, a nave of Norman origin and a transept and chancel designed by J Olrid Scott (1875-79).
A note in the church states that the disused font is thought to come from Lutley Chapel in the Forest.
Drummond-Roberts published a photograph of a disused font in Rottingdean church (not seen there when we visited), which is very like the disused font in Maresfield (Drummond-Roberts 1935, 72). See note on fonts with capitals carved from same block as bowl, under Heyshott.
M. F. Drummond-Roberts, Some Sussex Fonts Photographed and Described. Brighton 1935, 72.
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth 1965, 564-65 (no mention of fonts).
A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English fonts with details of those in Sussex. London 1908, 100-01; 126-27.
