Murston / Muston
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: the remains of the old church; photographed in 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sioux Peto, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 January 2011 by Sioux Peto [www.flickr.com/photos/50646987@N06/5512039629/] [accessed 8 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the modern church [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Anstiss, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2013 by David Anstiss [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3338613] [accessed 8 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the old church ca. 1807
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: ca. 1807? -- reproduced in http://kent.lovesguide.com/murston.htm [accessed 8 September 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06374MUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [old church]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Murston, Kent, ME103RE
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 1-2 km NE of Sittingbourne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Milton [aka Middleton] -- Lath of Sherwinhope [aka Scray, Wiwarlet]
Century and Period: 12th century, Medieval
Church Notes: the later church said to incorporate fragments of the earlier 12thC building
Font Notes:
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No entry for Muston found in the Domesday survey. Halsted (1798) writes: "The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a large building, of three isles and three chancels, having a square tower, with a wooden turret, in which are three bells." The old church was described in Glynne (1877), his visit to it having taken place earlier in the decade. That medieval building [12th-13th century?] was mostly demolished in the 1870s, with only a chancel remains as a mortuary chapel that still stands [www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-jVE_j2rW8] [accessed 8 September 2013]. The present font in this church is noted in Newman (1976) as modern, by William Burges [i.e., William Burges (1827-1881) High Victorian English architect] from the date of the new parish church, 1873-1874 [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font from the old church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.3425, 0.753
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 20′ 33″ N, 0° 45′ 10.8″ E
UTM: 31U 343501 5690310
REFERENCES
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976