Richborough / Rutupiae
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06588RIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 5th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Originally a timber-built apsed building
Font Location in Church: In the ruins of the Saxon fort
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine of Hippo?
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of Sandwich [NB: the font was located in a separate room of the main church
Font Notes:
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Noted with an illustration in De la Bédoyère (2006): "remains of a brick font, probably associated with an adjacent timber church of fourth-century date built within the walls of the shore fort at Rutupiae". A small mound of brick, rocks and mortar located at the Richborough Roman site has been identified as a baptismal font (baptistery well?) in one source [article by Paul Wilkinson in the on-line "KAFS magazine", issue 4, p. 7], or the base of a baptismal font [On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies, "Images of Sites from Roman and Sub-Roman Britain"]. Noted with some measurements in Ferguson (2009). Also, with illustration in http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/ruins/richborough.html
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 383819 5684075
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.296127, 1.333599
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 17′ 46.06″ N, 1° 20′ 0.95″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: brick
Font Shape: sunken font, hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Depth: 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [a/p Ferguson (2009), who gives the shape of the piscina as hexagonal with outer measurements 250 x 200 cm]
REFERENCES
- Bédoyère, Guy de la, Roman Britain: a new history, London: Thames & Hudson, 2006, p. 231
- Ferguson, Everett, Baptism in the Early Church: history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2009, p. 847