Tunbridge Wells No. 1
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BH01: human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: on the basin sides
INFORMATION
FontID: 06365TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: this church is located on Church Rd.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?) / 19th century, Laudian Revival? / Victorian?
Cognate Fonts: Fonts at Exeter cathedral and Falmouth
Font Notes:
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Tyrrell-Green (1928) described this font as one of "several large fonts of good design" [other such fonts at Exeter cathedral and Falmouth] that were caused to be made by the "Laudian revival of churchmanship"; there are four human heads adorning the basin. Newman (1980) refers to the architect as "that unspeakable Goth, Decimus Burton", who built this church in 1827-1829, and notes the font simply as "an C18 shape". [NB: there was no earlier church on this site so we must assume the font is 19th-century at the earliest] [NB: we have no information on a medieval church in Tunbridge Wells; the earliest church is that of Charles II, dating from the end of the 17th century as a chapel of ease, although its font is modern] [cf. Index entry for Tunbridge Wells No.2]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928