Woodchurch nr. Ashford

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06877WOO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Woodchurch, Kent, TN263QE
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Bromley, also in Kent, appears to be made of black marble as well [cf. FontNotes].
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
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980