Canterbury No. 7

Results: 2 records

B01: symbol - shield - monogram - Edward IV

B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose

Scene Description: "Yorkist roses"

INFORMATION

FontID: 05174CAN
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Alphege the Martryr
Church Patron Saints: St. Alphege [aka Ælfheah of Canterbury]
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located in St Alphage lane, near the cathedral
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font is Perpendicular, the bowl octagonal, with roses and shields; the stem octagonal with shafts." The crane of the cover is noted and illustrated in Cox (1905): "The well- designed font is also fifteenth century; it has a good cover with handsome iron crane or cantilever of somewhat later date." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Bond (1908) describes the projecting iron tracery beam to which the font cover was attached. Noted in Newman (1976: "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal. Roses either side of a shield, on each face of the bowl.-- Font cover. C17? It has highly elaborate contemporary bracket of brought iron, for the pulley. Described in the CEC WEB site [www.kentwebnet.com/cec] as an octagonal font with a Jacobean cover and an iron crane; the ornamentation is described as the monogram of Edward IV († 1483) and "Yorkist roses".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? / Jacobean
Apparatus: yes [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, Canterbury, a historical and topographical account of the city, London: Methuen, 1905
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976