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Identifier: sussexarchaeolog08suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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d are probably referableto about 1330. The hood-moulding of the window is different,bad what might be thought some years later: the tracery 244 ON THE CHURCH AT WORTH. however is decorated, and in it is an escutcheon with the armiof De Warenne in glass of that time. These are most likehthe coat of John de Warenne Earl of Surrey, who succeeded t<the earldom and to the lordship of Worth in 1304, and dietwithout legitimate issue in 1347. The window in the sout)transept is a modern imitation of that just described. The roof is flat and modern. It is ceiled and whitewashe<in the nave and panelled in the chancel, and has the appear iance of having undergone some comparatively recent repair. The Font, which stands near the south door, is curious: i jconsists in reality of two fonts placed one upon the other!This is not suggested by its appearance, for the lower, whic jis 1 foot 6 inches high, is not very unlike many supports cfonts of the twelfth or thirteenth century, being apparently
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square resting on a short cylinder between four columns, onsquare base common to all. The upper font is 1 foot 4 J inch)high, and nearly square, viz., 2 feet 2 inches by 2 feet, haviijthree of the sides enriched with ornamental carving, and tjfourth plain, as if designed to stand against a wall Tilcarvings, as it now stands, are, on the south side six point*: ON THE CHURCH AT WORTH. 245 quatrefoils, 3 and 3; on the east a double arcade of pointedkrches, the lower plain, the upper trifoliated ; and on the north\ double cross moline. There is nothing that indicates anyi^reat difference of date between the two fonts: a few yearsloefore and after the commencement of the thirteenth centurynight probably suffice for both. Opinions may even differ asto which is the earlier; but I think the lower one was firstexecuted, and that the other may be as late as the early part ofthe reign of Henry 111. It is not easy to account for such anjirrangement. From the manner in which they fit one on theoth

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