Dover No. 2 / Douerei
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Mary the Virgin on Biggin Street has been one of the main parish churches of Dover for over 400 years. The original structure was Norman (12th century), and the church still has a Norman tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2010 by Jim [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Parish_Church_in_Dover.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church in Dover, Kent."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nilfanion, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2012 by Nilfanion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Church,_Dover_1.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave of St. Mary the Virgin church, Dover"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Fray, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2008 ny Pam Fray [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_nave_of_St._Mary_the_Virgin_church,_Dover_-_geograph.org.uk_-_824637.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Dover Font"
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Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2007 by Immanuel Giel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_Dover_Font.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06882DOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Cannon St, Dover CT16 1BY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1304 213899
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A20, about 12 km up the coast from Folkstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Bewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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There are several entries for Dover [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR3241/dover/] [accessed 30 May 2024], one of which reports three churches in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, "bowl with two round headed panels on each face, probably recut". Noted in Newman (1976): Font. Norman. Square Purbeck marble bowl, as renewed as the church" [NB: Newman refers to the 1843 rebuilding of St Mary's by J.C & C. Buckler]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TR3192041516] notes: "Parish Church. Built on the site of some Roman Baths and a Saxon church on the site mentioned in Domesday Book, but the oldest part of the present structure is Norman. Early C12 [...] Norman octagonal Purbeck stone font bowl but remainder renewed."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.125898, 1.312883
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 33.23″ N, 1° 18′ 46.38″ E
UTM: 31U 381940 5665179
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
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976