Sutton Valence / Sudtone / Sutton Hastings / Town Sutton

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coat of arms - St. George / England

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Charles Frederick Angell (1874)

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Charles Frederick Angell (1874)

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design element - motifs - floral - 8-petal

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Charles Frederick Angell (1874)

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symbol - cross - saltire - treflée or fleuronnée - crosslet

Scene Description: seen here on the left panel

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Charles Frederick Angell (1874)

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: view of the church before its demolition in 1823

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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1823 drawing by Edward Pretty engraved by J.S. Lightfoot, in Charles Frederick Angell (1874)

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the old church ca. 1725; it was demolished in 1823

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Image Source: digital image of a 1725 drawing copied from a sketch by Edward Hasted in the British Museum, in Charles Frederick Angell (1874)

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Drawing of St Mary's parish church, Sutton Valence, Kent in the 18th century" -- this church was demolished in 1823

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by IWS of an 18thC drawing [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sutton_Valence_church_18C.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2022]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's parish church, Chart Road, Sutton Valence, Kent"

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Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2009 by Oast House Archive [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Chart_Road,_Sutton_Valence,_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1418580.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's parish church, Sutton Valence, Kent: interior of nave, looking east toward the apsidal chancel"

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Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2014 by ukiws camera https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sutton_Valance_Church_inside.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: a pre-1823 sketch

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Charles Frederick Angell (1874)

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font in its location in the new church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06149SUT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: St. Mary’s Church, Chart Rd, Sutton Valence, Maidstone ME17 3AW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1622 891804
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A274, about 8-9 km ESS of Maidstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Eyhorne [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. ImagesArea]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: medieval church demolished in 1823
There is an entry for Sutton [Valence] [alternate spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ8149/sutton-valence/] [accessed 31 December 2022]; it reports a church in it. The church and its baptismal font are noted and illustrated in Charles Frederick Angell's Some account of the parish church of St. Mary's, at Town Sutton, or Sutton Valence, in the county of Kent (London: J.E. Adlard, 1874). An interior plan of the re-buil church shows the baptismal in the southeast of the nave in 1828, next to Lambes chancel; the same source shows a drawing of the font captioned "As it stood in the Church prior to 1823", i.d. before the demolition of the old church and the installation of the font in the new building. The font is 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. Four-petalled flowers [cf. ImagesArea]on the sides of the bowl, which [...] are slightly concave." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ8096949189] notes: "Parish church. 1823-8 by W. Ashenden, incorporating medieval work [...] C15 octagonal concave-sided font with petalled flowers, on shafted octagonal stem with moulded base." [NB: none of the above sources appears to have bothered to look at the font itself, or at Angell's illustration [cf. supra], which shows two emblems and an eight-petalled -not four-petalled] rosette on one of the visible sides in the source; one of the two emblems is the England coat of arms with the St Geroge cross, while the other is a treflée or fleuronnée and crosslet saltire cross not in a shield] [NB: only three panels are clearly visible in our sources]. ]. The pedestal base is also octagonal and adorned with four buttresses.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.213229, 0.589648
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 47.62″ N, 0° 35′ 22.73″ E
UTM: 31U 331654 5676298

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]

REFERENCES

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