Oare nr. Feversham / Hoare
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B01: human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Faversham website [http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=11108] [accessed 10 February 2010]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the bases of the colonnettes of the base -- [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Faversham website [http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=11108] [accessed 10 February 2010]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Faversham.org, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Faversham website [http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=11108] [accessed 10 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06887OAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin and lower base only], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the parsih church is adjacent to a 12th-century (?) nunnery
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Faversham, on the S bank of The Swale
Additional Comments: altered font: stem columns are modern; woodenlegs or supports used for a period [cf. FontNotes] -- sent e-mail requesting high-res photo to churchwarden Linda Kennett (10 Feb 2010)
Font Notes:
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Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is large and Norman: a square marble bowl on cylindrical stem surrounded by four legs on square bases, but with no capitals." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Bond (1908) mentions a thirteenth century font with wooden legs at Hoare, Kent. [probably meant for "Oare"]. The wooden legs seen by Bond were later replaced, probably in the 19th-century renovation of the church, as noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Large. Norman, of Purbeck marble, but now too worn to be enjoyable. The five shafts all new. Square bowl, with tiny heads supporting the angles." Noted and illustrated in the Faversham website: [http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=11108] [accessed 10 February 2010]: "square font of Purbeck marble from the late Norman/Early English period. Its sides were once elaborately carved, but many years ago it went missing, only to be recovered decades later from a nearby pond, somewhat the worse for its immersion. Was it concealed from Cromwell’s ravaging iconoclasts?"
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [basin only]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 77
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 204
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 194
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 47, 405
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 47