Rolvenden
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: on one of the sides of the base
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Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt on a drawing by R.C.H. in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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B02: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Guldeford [i.e., Guildford] family
Scene Description: Sequence/order of the images unknown
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warren Culpepper, 2000
Image Source: digital image in http://gen.culpepper.com/Archives/uk/places/rolvenden.htm
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B03: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Culpeper family
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warren Culpepper, 2000
Image Source: digital image in http://gen.culpepper.com/Archives/uk/places/rolvenden.htm
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving by HPC (?), 1830, in Hussey (1852)
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt on a drawing by R.C.H. in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Rolvenden/RolvendenStMary2004.htm] [accessed 14 Febryary 2010]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warren Culpepper, 2000
Image Source: digital image in http://gen.culpepper.com/Archives/uk/places/rolvenden.htm
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warren Culpepper, 2000
Image Source: digital image in http://gen.culpepper.com/Archives/uk/places/rolvenden.htm
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Connell, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph [October 2001] by Pam Connell, in www.kentarchaeology.org.uk
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01187ROL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: The 19th-century font at Sonning, Berkshire, is said to have been designed based on this font. Other hexagonal fonts in England: Faringdon, Outwell, Kegworth and Sleaford -- in Kent: Tenterden
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Paley reports that the chapel to the south of the chancel "was built by a Guldeford" and provides the text of the inscription which dates it to 1444 (Paley, 1844: unpaged). Some parts of the church are earlier.
Church Address: Hastings Rd, Rolvenden, Cranbrook TN17 4LS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1580 761591
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 25-30 km NNE of Hastings on the A28
Additional Comments: painted font: the three shields on the basin sides have been brightly painted
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in an engraving by Orlando Jewitt on a drawing by R.C.H. in Paley (1844): hexagonal mounted font of the 14th century, Decorated style. Described in Parker (1850). Paley's illustration shows only three sides of the basin, one with a shield and the other two with a different motif on each, a three-arm "S" and a quatrefoil, each in a circle. Paley (Ibid.) reports that all sides of the basin "are ornamented with panels or shields", and identifies the coats of arms as "those of the Culpeper and Guldeford, who were connected by marriage; and it is not improbable that the Font was the joint gift of those families" (ibid.). The stem of the base is hexagonal as well but the volume of the lower base is square. The font "formerly stood under the westermost pillar, on the north side of the nave, but was removed when the Church was new pewed, and disused for many years, till the present Vicar, the Rev. John Hooper, had it placed opposite the priest's door in the chancel." (ibid.) [NB: the font appears to have been moved again: the entry for Rolvenden in VillageNet.co.uk [accessed 19 July 2006] locates the font "at the western end of the south aisle"]. Noted, with an illustration. in Hussey (1852) as a font of the Decorated period. Hexagonal wooden cover, low-pyramidal type with ball finial, of the 18th century. [NB: the 19th-century font at Sonning, Berkshire, is said to have been designed based on this font (Henry Woodyer, 2002)] [current -March 2000- images of the font can be seen at the web site: [http://gen.culpeper.com/places/intl-eng/rolvenden.htm]. Noted in Glynne (1877). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of a few hexagonal fonts in England later than the 14th century [others cited in C&H are: Faringdon, Outwell, Kegworth and Sleaford]. A recent [October 2001] photograph of this font by Pam Connell, can be found in the Kent Archaeological Society web site [ref.: Rolvenden TQ8431]. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Hexagonal. On the bowl shields, encircled quatrefoils, and one mouchette wheel. Peculiar fins at the base."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, por his photograph of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 333965 5658133
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0507, 0.631084
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 3′ 2.52″ N, 0° 37′ 51.9″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm
Basin Depth: 26.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 35 cm
Height of Base: 73 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Henry Woodyer, Gentleman Architect, Reading: The University of Reading, 2002, p. 52n
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 57
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 165, 170, 204
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 218
- 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. 143 [no. 274]
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 498
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 22, 28 et al.
- Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850, p. 214