Chislehurst / Chesilhurst / Ciselhyrst
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12
Scene Description: four arches on each side of the square basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2017 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_font_at_St_Nicholas_Church,_Chislehurst.JPG] [accessed 30 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ethan Doyle White, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2017 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicholas_Church,_Chislehurst_as_seen_from_southwest.JPG] [accessed 30 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "A carved angel on the western doorway of St Nicholas' Church in Chislehurst, southeast London."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ethan Doyle White, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2017 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carved_angel_on_St_Nicholas_Church,_Chislehurst.JPG] [accessed 30 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the nave seen from the east of the chancel screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1895849] [accessed 2 May 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Norman font at St Nicholas' Church in Chislehurst, southeast London."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ethan Doyle White, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2017 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_font_at_St_Nicholas_Church,_Chislehurst.JPG] [accessed 30 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06587CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 18 Church Row, Chislehurst BR7 5PG, UK -- Tel.: (020) 8467 4405
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the London borough of Bromley, E of Bromley SW of Sidcup, 17-18 km SE of Charing Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Historical Region: formerly Kent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Chislehurst in the Domesday survey. Hasted (vol. 2, 1797) notes: "King Henry I [r. 1100-1135] gave the church of Chesilhurst, with all tithes, rights, and appurtenances, to the church of St. Andrew, and Gundulph, bishop of Rochester", but does not mention a font in it. Hussey (1852) writes: "The font is square with round-headed arches slightly sunk in the sides, of Weald marble", but does not give a date for the font. In Newman (1980): "Font. Norman. The usual square arcaded bowl on five shafts (three renewed)." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ4441769919] notes: "Parish church. c.1460, incorporating earlier work; restored 1557, enlarged with some rebuilding in 1849 by Benjamin Ferry, 1858 by Wollaston, 1896 by Bodley and Garner. [...] Opening high on west wall of nave is a remnant of the original small Saxon church. [...] Font: Norman, with square, acaded bowl on five shafts." [Newman (ibid.) notes also the 19th-century font by James Brooks in the Church of the Annunciation, High Street, Chislehurst -- not listed in this Index on account of its late date]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 24′ 35.64″ N, 0° 4′ 30.41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Weald marble)
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-
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, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980