Canterbury No. 4

A drawing in Ruprich-Robert seems to describe the font in St. Martin's church!, though it appears to be labelled for St. Mary's: an unmounted tub-shaped font with typical Norman has the upper register (top 1/3) of the basin ornamented with a blind arcade of criss-crossing arches; below that, the remaining 2/3 of the basin sides are covered in interlacing with a predominance for a round motif (description based on drawing in Ruprich-Robert, 1884-1889) [is this R-R's error? - or was/is there such an identical font at St. Mary's?]. [NB: there are/were two Canterbury churches dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, [as opposed to St Mary Magdalene, which has one]: St. Mary Bredin, originally from ca. 1160; Glynne (1877) reported a modern font in this church, but the church was gutted in a WWII bombing in 1942, and the modern font probably destroyed at the time; a new church was built on the site in 1957 -- the second church dedicated to St. Mary was at Northgate and is said to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, re-built by the Normans; when the North Gate was removed in the late 18th century, St. Mary's lost its chancel; it was renovated in the 1830s, taken over by St. Gregory in the 1880s, and closed in 1912; became a government refectory at war-time; it was later taken over by the King's School, and it is now [Sept. 2009] a Music Centre]