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B01: inscription

[cf. inscription area and font notes for details]
Scene Description: [cf. inscription area and font notes for details]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06202DUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located about 7 km W of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: [reported converted into a sundial]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Brandiston (Norfolk) suffered the same end
Font Notes:
Reported in Tyrell-Green (1928: 39) as an old baptismal font that had been converted into a sundial; "its has been appropriately inscribed: 'Ye know not the hour your Lord cometh', one word on each of its eight sides" (ibid., p. 163)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: one word on each of the basin sides
Inscription Text: "YE / KNOW / NOT / THE / HOUR / YOUR / LORD / COMETH"
Inscription Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: 163)

REFERENCES

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928