Graveney / Gravenel
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Font dressed for Harvest, All Saints, Graveney"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2010 by nick macneill [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2132423] [accessed 26 December 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2010 by nick macneill [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2132423] [accessed 26 December 2022]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - England
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2010 by nick macneill [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2132423] [accessed 26 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Graveney, All Saints Church: Southern aspect"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 December 2016 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5232066] [accessed 26 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Graveney, All Saints Church: Northern aspect"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 December 2016 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5232064] [accessed 26 December 2022]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
![seen here on the left panel; this is not the coat of arms of the See of Canterbury [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: seen here on the left panel; this is not the coat of arms of the See of Canterbury [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dan B, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 May 2022 by Dan B. [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSDZQ9PWYAIj8U-?format=jpg&name=large] [accessed 26 December 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06145GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: 12thC church; much modified since
Church Address: 7 All Saints View, Graveney, Faversham ME13 9EB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1227 751410
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A299, about 5 km ENE of Faversham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Boughton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Graveney [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR0562/graveney/] [accessed 26 December 2022]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the base of an early baptismal font "with concave sides and octagonal in plan", ornamented with "the arms of the see of Canterbury, with the heraldic badges of the rose and fleur-de-lys". Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular]. As often, the eight sides of the bowl are slightly hollowed. Roses and shields alternate in them." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TR0519062470] notes: "Parish Church. C12 and C14 with some C15 fenestration. Little restored [...] C15 font, hollow octagonal bowl with decorated panels."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 356811 5688106
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.3262, 0.944847
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 34.32″ N, 0° 56′ 41.45″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 333
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 36, 107