Canterbury No. 1

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the old alms-box: 15th-16th century?

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

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view of font cover - pulley and counterweight

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01084CAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dunstan Holy Cross Church
Church Patron Saints: St. Dunstan
Church Location: 80 London Rd, Canterbury CT2 8LS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7591 513812
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on St Dunstan's Streeet
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Margie Hofman for the photographs of this font and cover]
Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font is octagonal, on a shaft; and has a wooden cover of very rich tabernacle work. Described in Cox (1905): "The font, under the tower, seems to be of the end of the fourteenth century, and has a good crocketed cover of the like date". The cover is noted again in Cox (1923). Only the cover itself is noted in Newman (1976): "Perp[endicular]. Tall, graceful, and charmingly intricate, though new at the bottom." The font itself consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base; the whole is almost plain, with a moulded chamfer marking the underbowl, and a double moulding on the splaying lower base. Appears to have had some re-tooling; is it medieval?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.28357, 1.071
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 17′ 0.85″ N, 1° 4′ 15.6″ E
UTM: 31U 365475 5683127

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Perpendicular [much restored]
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; pulley with counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922
Cox, John Charles, Canterbury, a historical and topographical account of the city, London: Methuen, 1905
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976