Sittingbourne / Saedingburga / Sedingbourne / Sœdingburna / Sidyngborne / Sittingborn / Sittingborne
Results: 12 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 2
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Image Source: drawing [ca.1800?] by Thomas Fisher is entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1538] [accessed 13 January 2008]
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B02: symbol - acorn - clustered
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Image Source: drawing [ca.1800?] by Thomas Fisher is entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1538] [accessed 13 January 2008]
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B03: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Archbishop Arundel (1396/1397-1414)
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Image Source: drawing [ca.1800?] by Thomas Fisher is entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1538] [accessed 13 January 2008]
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B04: symbol - Christ - the instruments of the Passion
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B05: symbol - cross - treflée or fleuronnée
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LB01: design element - architectural - buttress
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Church of England. Archbishops' Council, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph in A Church Near You [www.achurchnearyou.com/photo_gallery/bluescarf_12153_1304680944_833.jpg] [accessed 8 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/326739] [accessed 8 September 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: beyond the gap is the chancel arch, the chancel and the presbitery
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view of font
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Image Source: drawing [ca.1800?] by Thomas Fisher is entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1538] [accessed 13 January 2008]
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view of church interior - detail
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01149SIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Notes: fire of 1762, in Halsted (1798): "On the 17th of July, 1762, the wind being exceeding high, a fire broke out on the roof of this church, occasioned by the plumbers, who were repairing the leads, having left their fire burning during their absence at dinner, which consumed the whole of it, except the bare walls and the tower."
Church Address: High Street, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 3DS
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A2, 16 ENE of Maidstone, 13 km ESE of Gillingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Milton [aka Middleton] -- Lath of Sherwinhope [aka Scray, Wiwarlet]
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Sittingbourne in the Domesday survey. Baptismal font here noted in Gough (1792): "octagon, charged with two roses, a cluster of acorns, Canterbury impaling in a border ingrailed a lion rampant quartering cheque, instruments of the Passion, a cross flory, and a modern inscription." Halsted (1798) writes: "The church of Sittingborne belonged to the Benedictine nunnery of Clerkenwell, to which it was appropriated before the 8th year of king Richard II.[i.e., 1385] [...] The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is a large, handsome building, of three isles and two chancels, and two cross ones; at the west end is a tower beacon steeple, in which is a clock, a set of chimes, and six bells. On the stone font, which is an octagon, are the arms of archbishop Arundel, a shield, having on it a cross story; and another with the emblems of Christ's crucifixion on it." The font and the eight motifs on the sides of the octagonal basin are illustrated in a drawing [ca.1800?] by Thomas Fisher entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1538] [accessed 13 January 2008]. Noted in Pigots Directory of Kent (1840): "enriched octagonal font of great beauty". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an enriched octagonal font" that survived the fire of 1762 [the font, the walls and little else remained of the building]. Glynne (1877) identifies the arms on the shield as Archbishop Arundel's, the others as Instruments of the Passion. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font bearing the arms of Archbishop Arundel (1397-1414). In Newman (1976): "Font. Octagonal, on a thick buttressed stem. Leaf patterns (one a delightful design of oak leaves and acorns) alternate with shields on the bowl. Arms of Archbishop Arundel (1396-1414) on one shield."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 342583 5690025
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.339684, 0.739947
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 20′ 22.86″ N, 0° 44′ 23.81″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: unknown
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 10 and fn
- 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
- Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-, vol. 6: 150-163 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62956] [accessed 8 September 2013]
- 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=51279] [accessed 1 March 2007]
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 457
- Pigot, Pigots Directory of Kent, 1840, [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shebra/pigots_1840_kent.htm] [accessed 17 August 2006]