Penshurst

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2003

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Results: 12 records

B01: symbol - letter - M - crowned (or a crowned H, for Henry Rex?]

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2003 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Penshurst/Penshurst2003.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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B02: Christ - monogram - XP [chi rho]

Scene Description: XPE? -- cf. Font notes

B03: Christ - monogram - XP [chi rho]

Scene Description: XPE? cf. Font notes

B04: Christ - monogram - IHS

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B05: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B06: symbol - cross

B07: symbol - shield - emblem - see of Canterbury

Scene Description: the arms include the pall, or pallium, symbol of the Pope's authority; the emblem predates the Reformation [cf. Font notes]

B08: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: on the red shield, left panel

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

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view of church exterior - west tower

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: knob/finial of the modern cover [carved by Laurence Lee (?)]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aunty P, 2010

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05442PEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Penshurst, Kent TN11 8DB
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2176, 7 km NW of Tubridge Wells, 10 km S of Sevenoaks
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Bradfield, Lindfield, Pitminster and Carfax church, Oxford
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Gough (1792) writes: "That [font] at Penshurst is octagon, with a crowned M. xpe and ihs (each twice) a cross, the archbishop's pall, and the instruments of the Passion." Described in Glynne (1877) from notes of his 1829 visit to this church: "The font is octagonal, panelled with quatrefoils, containing shields charged with various devices; one, a cross; one, emblems of crucifixion; one, arms of the see of Canterbury; one (ihc xpc); one, I H R, &c.; the pedestal is panelled and enriched with tracery, but the whole is barbarously painted blue and red." Described by Bond (1908) as one of a group of "unmounted fonts of the fifteenth century". Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Panelled stem. Shields in quatrefoils on the bowl." The Parish web site [http://beehive.courier.co.uk] notes: "At the west end of the Church there is a 15th century octagonal baptism font brilliantly painted with eight crests--St Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, sacred monograms, Henry Rex and Instruments of the Passion". [NB: is the crowned M in Gough a crowned H, for Henry Rex? -- is the archbishop's pall a symbol for Thomas Becket?]. [NB: the 15th-century building replaced an earlier one from ca. 1200 -- we have no information on the earlier font(s) from this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 302862 5672556

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?

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
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980