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B01: symbol - shield - inscription - cross
Scene Description: the words for Jesus and Mary, and a cross appear on it
INFORMATION
FontID: 06148SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Hythe, just W of Folkestone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Hussey (1852) writes only that "the font is enclosed in a case of carved oak", which does not seem to be noted by any of the later sources. Geldart (1899) notes that the Name JESUS is spelled "Jehiu, or possibly Jehsu" on this font. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, with a shield on one of the panels of its basin; the shield contains the words: Jeshu, Marya [NB: C&H list in the wrong county, Gloucestershire]. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928): "A large octagonal font with markedly concave sides, and quite plain except that on one side of the bowl a shield is carved bearing the name JESUS, and below MARIA, with a cross in the base of the shield". Noted succintly in Newman (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular]"
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: 1) Cox & Harvey's version; 2)Tyrrell-Green's version
Inscription Location: on one of the basin sides
Inscription Text: 1): "JESHU / MARYA"
2): "JESUS / MARIA"
Inscription Source: Geldart (1899: 92); )Cox & Harvey (1907: 184); Tyrrell-Green (1928: 162)
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Geldart, Ernest, A manual of church decoration and symbolism, containing directions and advice to those who desire worthily to deck the church at various seasons of the year: also, the explanation and the history of the symbols and emblems of religion, Oxford, London: A.R. Mobray & Co., 1899
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, 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