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B01: angel - holding scroll

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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B02: symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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B03: Christ - Agnus Dei

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B04: design element - motifs - floral - flower

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06146HEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A274, about 15 km SSE of Maidstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1450?
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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 crudely 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
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
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
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928