Minster in Sheppey / Minster, Swale / Minster-in-Sheppey / Minster-on-Sea
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view of church exterior - east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "SS Mary & Sexburga, Minster. Minster Abbey was founded as a nunnery in 664 and eventually comprised both a parochial church for ordinary worshippers and a nunnery church for the nuns. The east end of the latter is seen here."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Kemp, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by David Kemp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2726635] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the gate and the abbey in its context ca. 1831
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Image Source: engraving by H. Adlard of a drawing by T.M. Baynes, in Ireland's History of Kent, Vol. 4 (1831: 122-123) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MinsterSheppy.jpg] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the gate and the abbey in its context in 1997
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Smith, 2010
Image Source: photograph taken 31 March 1997 by Roger Smith
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06147SHE
Church/Chapel: Abbey church of Minster in Sheppey [now parish church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Sexburga
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the Island of Sheppey, not far from Sheerness
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, behind the fourth arch (counting from the altar)
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: originally a Benedictine nunnery destroyed by the Danes mid-9thC; rebuilt pre-Conquest; re-founded as Augustinian nunnery 12thC; two churches coexisted side by side at one point: abbey church and parish church
There is no entry for this Minster in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted in Glynne (1877): "The font is a plain octagon." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the basin of an early baptismal font "with concave sides and octagonal in plan". Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Simple Perp[endicular], concave-sided, with a Jacobean cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.422155,
0.812203
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 25′ 19.76″ N,
0° 48′ 43.93″ E
UTM: 31U 347889 5699043
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean? / 17th cetury?
Material:
wood,
REFERENCES
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928