London No. 14

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl sides

INFORMATION

FontID: 05857LON
Church/Chapel: Chelsea Old Church [All Saints']
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located between the Chelsea Embankment and Kings Rd
Font Location in Church: Southwest corner
Date: ca. 1673?
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Neoclassical
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather of Licoln for the old image of this font, and to Tom Stevenson [www.genealogysource.com] for a recent [2001] photograph of the same.
Octagonal mounted font of the pedestal type; the small basin has an octagonal rim but hemispherical sides and underbowl, ornamented with an elegant high-relief ribbed pattern; the base is a tall slender pedestal of the baluster type; the cover is an octagonal medium-height dome with a large dove finial. Blatch (1995: 350) informs that the "top part [of the font] is original and dates from 1673", but that the cover is a reproduction of the original one that was destroyed in the World War II bombings (as was a large part of this church). [We are grateful to Peter Fairweather of Licoln for the old image of this font, and to Tom Stevenson [www.genealogysource.com] for a recent [2001] photograph of the same

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: reproduction
Notes: [modern reproduction - original destroyed in WWII

REFERENCES

Blatch, Mervyn, Guide to London's churches (2. ed.), London: Constable, 1995