Sandwich No. 1 / Sandwic / Sandwice

REVISE THIS ENTRY WITH ROSSETER'S ARTICLE https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.103%20-%201986/103-08.pdf ***************************************************************************************************** Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an octagonal font" in this church, probably the same font described as "an ancient font, ornamented with armorial bearings and fanciful sculptures", in The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July-Dec, 1856: 68). Cox & Harvey (1907) list a heraldic font at "Sandwich, Kent"; later (ibid.) they include a Perpendicular baptismal font at "Sandwich St. Mary" among the fonts of this period in the county [NB: since both fonts, St Mary's and St Clement's have heraldic devices on them it is possible that the two entries in Cox & Harvey refer to each of the two fonts]. Newman (1976) states that the fonts at Herne and Sandwich St Clement's are "both datable to the first decade to first decade of the C15". The font at Sandwich is described in Jenkins (1999) as "a large octagonal bowl set on a stem with (sadly empty) statue niches but with large heraldic shields and Tudor roses on each face of its octagon." The Open Sanwich web site [www.open-sandwich.co.uk] notes: "The octagonal heraldic font has on one of its faces the arms of ancient Sandwich, and on the south face the Arms of Archdeacon Robert Hallum, by whom it is believed the font was given about 1406." Ditto in David Ross & Britain Express [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/kent/churches/sandwich-st-clement.htm] [accessed 13 July 2018]. On the identification of the heraldic devices on this font see James Greenstreet entry in Notes & Queries, 6th Ser., vol. 3, Jan-Jun, 1881 (London: John Francis, 1881): 364, in which he writes: "The Arms of Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury, still extant in St. Clement's Church, Sandwich.-- On the font of St. Clement's Church, Sandwich, is a shield bearing a cross engrailed charged with five ermine spots, a crescent (for difference) figuring in the dexter chief. These ermine spots are wrongly described by Boys, in his History of Sandwich (p. 166) as five escallops; and he hazards the assumption that the arms are those of Thomas Ellis, sometime Mayor of Sandwich, which they most certainly are not. The presentation to the churches of St. Clement and St. Mary in Sandwich belonged to the Archdeacon of Canterbury, and we accordingly find that Robert Hallum, who then held the office and was subsequently Bishop of Salisbury (from 1408 to 1417), presented John Chaundeler to the vicarage of St. Mary on Jan. 23. 1404/5. [...] The arms on the font are undoubtedly those of this prelate, who bore Sable, a cross engrailed ermine, and in the dexter chief a crescent argent (? the ermine, not argent) [...]",