Canterbury No. 8
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Results: 5 records
B01:
design element - architectural - handle - 2
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Image Source: engraving in Cross & Hall (1882)
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LB01:
design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: engraving in Cross & Hall (1882)
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R01:
design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: engraving in Cross & Hall (1882)
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: the entrance to the hospital
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Image Source: engraving in Cross & Hall (1882)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Bax, 1999
Image Source: photograph by Stephen Bax, 1999 [http://weblingua.hostinguk.com/invictaweb/canterburybuildings/pages/sjjohns.htm] [accessed 9 February, 2010]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05175CAN
Church/Chapel: Church of St. John's Hospital
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located in Northgate, between the river and the A28
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 10th - 12th century [re-cut?] / 16th - 17th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman? [altered]
Noted and illustrated in Cross & Hall (1882). Described in Cox (1905): "The circular font, two feet in diameter, temp, early Henry[II?], is somewhat remarkable; there are two projections to the bowl which have the appearance of pierced handles. The cover is a heavy example of Elizabethan or early Jacobean date." Bond (1908) describes the basin of this font as having handles, "though it is a circular stone bowl mounted on a pedestal." Tyrrell-Green (1928) describes the font as "certainly a very early one and possibly pre-Conquest, has a single projection which has been worked into the form of a blind cup-handle". [NB: had the font lost a handle by 1928? Both earlier sources [cf. supra] show or mention 'handles' The font appears now [1999] with two handles]. [NB: it is difficult to entertain the early dating assigned to this font, unless what we see now is a total re-cutting of an earlier tub font; the pedestal itself, if not the whole font, is of a post-medieval date].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet in Cox (1905)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-17th century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: uncommon, with a large finial (?) of baluster shape
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
Cross, Francis W., Rambles round Old Canterbury, London; Canterbury: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Cross & Jackman and Hal Drury, 1882
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
