Kingston nr. Canterbury / Kingstone

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph 4 June 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3519469] [accessed 1 June 2024]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles, Kingston"

Image Source: digital photograph 4 June 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3519444] [accessed 1 June 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles, Kingston - East end"

Image Source: digital photograph 4 June 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3519478] [accessed 1 June 2024]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Margie Hofman in www.storyhouse.org/margie9.html

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 August 2006)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles, Kingston - Font"

Image Source: digital photograph 4 June 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3519469] [accessed 1 June 2024]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2002 by Pam Connell, in Kent Archaeological Society [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05426KIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: Kingston, Canterbury CT4 6HY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1227 668190

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located 8 km SSE of Canterbury down the A2 to Out Elmstead, then S (right-hand turn) on the local road

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Margie Hofman for her photograph of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Glynne (1877) reports a wooden font in this church. Bond (1908) reports that "Sir Stephen Glynne described the font at Kingstone, Kent, as being of wood." [NB: we have found no corroboration for this claim for the Church of St. Giles, Kingston, or any other Kingston or Kingstone in Kent]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "the sides of the bowl are slightly roundedand there are two rounded panels on each face." The stone font at St. Giles' is noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Octagonal bowl on shafts, with two sunk arches, round-topped, per side. Norman fonts are very rarely that shape." The entry for this church in Historical England [Listing NGR: TR1981051262] notes: "The walls of the chancel and nave are C12 or possibly Saxon, but the church was largely rebuilt in the C14. The tower is C15 and the north porch C19 [...] Replaced Norman font." An entry in The Preservation Foundation web site [www.storyhouse.org/margie9.html] by Margie Hofman (2004) refers to a posted notice near the font; it informs that "this font was cast out of the church on account of its age and shameful to relate, used to hold pig food -- was at length rescued from profanation and placed here in 1775." [NB: it must have been at the latter date, 1775, or thereabouts, when the new stems and base were added].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.2193, 1.1467

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 13′ 9.48″ N, 1° 8′ 48.12″ E

UTM: 31U 370574 5675844

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Apparatus: no

Notes: [octagonal pyramidal, painted blue, with orn-and-cross finial; apears modern]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976