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B01: angel - holding scroll
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Connell, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph by Pam Connell (October 2001) in Kent Archaeological Society web site [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
B02: symbol - shield - blank
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Connell, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph by Pam Connell (October 2001) in Kent Archaeological Society web site [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk]
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LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Connell, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph by Pam Connell (October 2001) in Kent Archaeological Society web site [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk]
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Connell, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph by Pam Connell (October 2001) in Kent Archaeological Society web site [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Connell, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph by Pam Connell (October 2001) in Kent Archaeological Society web site [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06146HEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1450?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A274, about 15 km SSE of Maidstone
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hussey (1852): "Font Perp[endicular], octagon, with angels, &c. on the sides." Glynne (1877) adds the scrolls in the angels' hands, the Holy Lamb and a rose. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the basin of an early baptismal font "with concave sides and octagonal in plan". Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal, with concave sides. Buttressed stem. The faces of the bowl carved with angels, shileds, a flower, and the Agnus Dei." Illustrated in the Kent Archaeological Society web site [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk]. The font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which decorated as indicated in Newman above; graded underbowl chanfer; octagonal stem with buttresses at the angles; moulded lower base. Polygonal plinth. Wooden cover, painted; modern?
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: painted
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 204
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 115
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 77 [no. 154]
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 320
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 36