Adisham / Adesham
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Innocents Church in Adisham, Kent."
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Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2017 by Josh Tilley [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Innocents_Adisham_1.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of font - northeast side
Scene Description: the base is a later restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.G., [s.d.]
Image Source: digital photograph by "D.G." in T. Machado 2007 [http://www.machadoink.com/Adisham Kent.htm] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.G., [s.d.]
Image Source: digital photograph by "D.G." in T. Machado 2007 [http://www.machadoink.com/Adisham Kent.htm] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: seen here by the north entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © D.G., [s.d.]
Image Source: digital photograph by "D.G." in T. Machado 2007 [http://www.machadoink.com/Adisham Kent.htm] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06879ADI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only?] -- 13th century [base?], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Innocents
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N entranceway [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Innocents
Church Address: Church Ln, Adisham, Canterbury CT3 3JH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7515 027912
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B2046, 9-10 km SE of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Eastry [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: composite font? -- altered font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Adisham [variant spelling] in te Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR2254/adisham/] [accessed 10 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is early, and has a square bowl charged with plain round arches, upon a square pedestal." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) with a group of Norman-period fonts on which "the arcading is rather rudely represented by a succession of shallow sunk panels with semicircular heads [...] the only adornment" of the basin. Torr (1930) assigns a 13th-century date to this font, "except the possibly older bowl". Noted in Newman (1976): "Norman. The usual square arcaded bowl of Bethersden marble, on a cluster of five shafts." [NB: base changed since Glynne's reported 'square pedestal'?]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with six panels on each face; the subsidiary shafts are restored" [gives source: The Rev. D.E.J. Hodge]. The entry for this church in Histotic England [Listing NGR: TR2279454202] notes: "The building is largely late C12 except for the south transept which is Cl3 and has an east gabled projection as at Ickham and the north porch which is C19, but the base of the tower possibly contains some earlier Norman work and later C14 windows have been inserted in the nave and the chapel to the north of it. The whole building was restored in 1869-70 [...] Norman font." The entry for this church in the 1991 Kent Archaeological survey by Tim Tatton-Brown [https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/ADI.htm] [accessed 10 February 2023] notes: "The font bowl is of Purbeck Marble [...] a square arcaded bowl on a cluster of 5 shafts (now in the middle of the nave)." Noted and illustrated in T. Machado 2007 [http://www.machadoink.com/Adisham Kent.htm] [accessed 10 February 2023]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 373732 5678403
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.243, 1.191
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 14′ 34.8″ N, 1° 11′ 27.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
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. 204
- Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia in the Early Middle Ages: a Cultural Survey, London, Zagreb: Philip Wilson and AGM, 1999, p. 75
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 246
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 69
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 126
- Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930