Fordwich / Forewic

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20 arches

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: five per side -- notice the metal staple on the side; it was probably an anchoring point for an earlier font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2018 by Josh Tilley [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_the_Virgin_Fordwich_1.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2018]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Fordwich Kent - Royal Arms Royal Arms dated 1688 over chancel arch, "WR", Willielmus Rex, (King William III). No arms shown or impaled of his wife Queen Mary II".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/324710] [accessed 21 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/324707] [accessed 21 April 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: it is possible that only the basin is original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06884FOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: The Drove, Fordwich, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 0DE, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A291-A28 corssroads, 4-5 km NE of Canterbury, and now part of it

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Fordwich

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: church now redundant

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Fordwich [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR1859/fordwich/] [accessed 21 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne (1877) writes: "The font is Norman, of square form, moulded, with plain, small, semicircular arches; it stands upon a circular pillar with square base. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Torr (1930) writes: "Of Norman date, the fonts at Upper Hardres, Westwell, Tilmanstone and Fordwich (without angle shafts) may serve as examples of the arcaded bowl type". Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Norman. Square, arcaded bowl." The font, which is attached to one of the pillars of the nave on one side, consists of a square slightly tapering basin decorated with a shallow arcade of five round arches on the three visible sides, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base, and a square two-step lower base or plinth. The wooden cover consists of a box-like base, almost the size and height of the basin itself, with metal handles on the sides, and four stylised vertical scroll ribs around a centre pivot that has a turned finial; date unknown

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.2958, 1.1271

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 17′ 44.88″ N, 1° 7′ 37.56″ E

UTM: 31U 369422 5684386

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Bethersden marble?]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976

Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930