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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16

Scene Description: the font on the left side of the print [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: "Drawing [1 June 1871, by Thomas Garrat] of plan and cross section of the font at Spratton church" in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection [ref.: DR/25/242/002], Northamptonshire Central Library [www.vads.ac.uk/images/HDC/large/DR_25_242_002.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2012]

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UB01: design element - motifs - foliage - waterleaf

Scene Description: the font on the left side of the print [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: "Drawing [1 June 1871, by Thomas Garrat] of plan and cross section of the font at Spratton church" in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection [ref.: DR/25/242/002], Northamptonshire Central Library [www.vads.ac.uk/images/HDC/large/DR_25_242_002.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2012]

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view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Bull, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2009 by Phil Bull [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1234616] [accessed 1 June 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06883FOO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints and St. James
Church Patron Saints: All Saints & St. James
Church Location: Rectory Lane, Foots Cray, Bexley, Greater London DA14 5BS
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located just a few km S of Bexley, 20 km from central London
Historical Region: formerly in Kent -- Hundred of Ruxley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Deacribed in Lysons (1796): "The font is square, of Norman architecture; the sides ornamented with circular arches". Noted in Hussey's Supplement (1852): "The font, of Weald marble, is Norm[an]." In Glynne (1877): "The font is a large square one of Norman character, made of granite, each side is moulded with a range of plain semicircular arches, the pedestal is cylindrical with square base." Illustrated in a 1 June 1871 printed drawing by Thomas Garratt, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Purbeck marble, a good example of a common type. Square arcaded bowl, , the sides slightly tapering. Four corner shafts with waterleaf capitals. Waterleaf is a motif of c.1190."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 299395 5700037

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)? / granite?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-03-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980