Frindsbury

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B01: symbol - letter - JR

Scene Description: over two of the sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]

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B02: coat of arms - Rikhill?

Scene Description: one on each panel of the basin side [cf. Font notes]

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LID01: angel - cherub

Scene Description: the counterweight of the font cover is a cherub

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Scene Description: One of the Rickhill coats of arms as drawn in Giffin (1917)

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information

Scene Description: Another of the Rickhill coats of arms drawn in Griffin (1917)

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view of basin and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05279FRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just NW of Rochester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is an octagonal bowl, panelled with shields, the pedestal octagonal with small buttresses, the cover of wood with crockets." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Bond (1908) mentions it and illustrates the cover, an octagonal Gothic pyramid with cusped arris, and the counterweight in the shape of a cherub. The same illustration lets see the upper part of the font, an octagonal basin with three of the side panels visible; the one in the centre has a large "R", while the two on the sides have a shield in each, bearing coats of arms; the short chamfer of the underbowl appears plain and the pedestal octagonal. Griffin (1917), writing on the arms of Rikhill, notes: "These arms are also on the font at Frindsbury. Two shields have a mullet between the bars for difference and the letters J. R., no doubt for John Rikhill. Another has a martlet in the same position for difference and the letters N. R., no doubt for Nicholas Rikhill." The font-cover is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: only one visible in the source
Inscription Location: initials on some basin sides
Inscription Text: "J. R. / N. R."
Inscription Source: Bond (1985 c1908: ill. on p. 292); Griffin (1917: 59-60)

LID INFORMATION

Date: Gothic
Material: wood,
Apparatus: counterweight; the counterweight is a cherub, probably of lead

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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
Griffin, Ralph, "Monumental brasses in Kent", 32 (1917), Archaeologia Cantiana, 1917, pp. 27-75; r["References"]
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980