Woodchurch nr. Ashford
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/324278] [accessed 3 February 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oast House Archive, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2008 by the Oast House Archive [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/786828] [accessed 3 February 2013]
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Our Family Genealogy Pages, 2013
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06877WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Bromley, also in Kent, appears to be made of black marble as well [cf. FontNotes].
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Woodchurch, Kent, TN263QE
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the B2067, between Ashford (11 km) and Tenterden (8 km), 35 km ENE of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Additional Comments: emailed Genealogy page req'g permit to repro their photos (3 Feb 2013) -- altered font: restored; the freestone has been waxed to make it look like marble [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is an early one; the bowl of black marble and square form, sculptured with a rude Norman arcade, the stem cylindrical, with four shafts at the angles on a square plinth." Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period made of black marble. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Norman. Square arcaded bowl on five circular shafts. Once more, waxed and not marble" Newman (ibid.) explains that the font, like many of the shafts throughout the church, appear to be of local marble (quarried at Bethersden, the next-door village), but a close look shows that many of the are freestone waxed to turn them grey". The English Heritage site entry for this church [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-180506-parish-church-of-all-saints-woodchurch-k] [accessed 3 February 2013] notes: "Early C13 font. Restored by Ferrey 1858."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 344297 5660404
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [waxed freestone]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 203
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 214
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 614