Farningham / Farmingham / Ferlingeham / Ferningeham / Forningeham
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B01: sacrament - confirmation
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B02: sacrament - baptism
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B03: sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: Newman (1980) dates the font to the last quarter of the 15th century by the style of the bride's headdress
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B04: sacrament - holy orders
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B05: sacrament - extreme unction
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B06: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: a dying (?) person receiving the Eucharist; the next side is the actual Eucharist at the Mass
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B07: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: the previous side has the Administration of the Sacrament to a dying (?) person
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B08: sacrament - penance
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view of font
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view of font and program
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving on a drawing "from the pencil of Mr. Hollis, jun.", in The Gentleman's Magazine (Nov. 1836: 480-481)
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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view of church exterior - west end
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: high contrast decorative effect created by the knapped flint
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
view of church interior - monument
Scene Description: the Rooper monument
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view of church interior - monument - detail
Scene Description: the Rooper monument
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: a large quatrefoil deeply carved on each of the sides of the lower base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01112FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-26
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [composite font?], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Another Seven-Sacrament font outside East Anglia at Nettlecombe, Somerset
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the centre nave, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: High Street, Farningham, Kent DA4 0DP
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A20, SE of London
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Historical Region: Hundred of Axton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: composite font -- two fonts? the base is claimed to be an inverted bowl [cf. FontNotes] -- painted/whitewashed font: Glynne informs it was taken off
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Farningham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 11 October 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Gough (1792) as one of several fonts with scenes of the Seven Sacraments [NB: Gough spells name 'Farmingham']. Described in detail, with a drawing by Mr. Hollis, in The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of November 1836), and a reference to this font's appearance in Thorpe's Custumale Roffense. The article dates the font to the time of Henry VI [i.e., 1422-1461] based on some garments on the scenes, but warns that the stem is modern, and that the lower base "is in fact an older font reversed, and it was in all probability that which preceded the present, and by which it was superseded" [the article cites "the Clergyman at Farningham" as having communicated this latter information to Mr. Hollis. Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 and in Clarke's Gazetteer of 1852. Described in Hussey (1852): "The font is Perp[endicular], an octagon, with figures carved in the sides. The font is represented in Cust. Roff.) [i.e., Thorpe's Custumale Roffense]". Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is the most remarkable object about the church, and is a beautiful specimen of Curvilinear or Rectilinear work [i.e., roughly Decorated or Perpendicular]. The form is octagonal, and each face is richly sculptured with figures, in fine condition, possibly representing the Seven Sacraments. This font is engraved in the Custumale Roffense. Round the base of the shaft is a panelled band with quatrefoils. The whitewash has been carefully taken off." Both Bond (1908) and Cox & Harvey (1907) have a poor opinion of this font, the latter defining it as a rather crude imitation of the Seven-sacrament fonts of East Anglia. Noted in Cautley (1949). Newman (1976) writes that this font "has carvings, not good, of the Seven Sacraments", and that it is "one of only two Seven Sacraments fonts outside East Anglia [...] Nettlecombe, Somerset, is the other". Newman (ibid.) further notes that "In Marriage the bride wears a headdress typical of the third quarter of the C15." Described and studied in Nichols (1994). Octagonal mounted font with the Seven-sacraments carved on the basin sides, the added side depicting the Administration of the Holy Sacrament. Nichols (ibid.) points out the "preference for telescopic views" in its representations. On-site notes: the several volumes of the base, all octagonal and plain except for the lowest volume, which has quatrefoil ornamentation on its sides, and the square plinth do not seem to belong together, giving the font the aspect of a stone puzzle. The flat octagonal wooden lid is modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 306649 5695736
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.379896, 0.221529
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 22′ 47.63″ N, 0° 13′ 17.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 10-13 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 46 cm*
Height of Base: 67 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 28 x 32 cm* / 20 cm* [8 in. in the square]
Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 132 cm* / 130 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 69 x 75 cm* (diagonals of the octagon) / 72.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-ste / ** The Gentleman's Magazine (Nov. 1836: 480)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: flat octagonal lid; modern
REFERENCES
- "The font at Farningham Church, Kent", November 1836, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1836, pp. 480-481; p. 480-481 and plate
- Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, The Principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, with an explanation of technical terms […], London: W. Kent, 1859, p. 367
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 32, 44, 257
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23
- Clarke, B., The British Gazetteer, poltical, commercial, ecclesiastical, and historical; showing [...], London: Published (for the proprietors) by H.G. Collins, 1852, vol. 2: 175 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=Cs4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA287&lpg=PA287&dq=longstow+church+font&source=web&ots=oEll8d02wb&sig=cEACZpfbEkPDiFm8yf-yzm-GZmY#PPP7,M1] [accessed 9 Nov 2007]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168, 204
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 306
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 192
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 67 [no. 124]
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50957] [accessed 5 February 2007]
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 71
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 71, 283
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 79, 81, 105fn, 170fn, 194fn, 202, 208, 213, 225, 230, 245, 252, 253, 255-256, 260, 262, 263, 272, 275, 276, 285, 288fn, 324, 336, and plates 35, 46, 59, 68