Ospringe / Ospringes
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 20 arches
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 16 April 2008 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/769288] [accessed 18 Feberuary 2023]
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view of church exterior - porch and portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter & St Paul Church, Ospringe, Kent - Porch"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 16 April 2008 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/769311] [accessed 18 Feberuary 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Ospringe. Situated in Water Lane. The saddleback tower is the culmination of Victorian restoration in 1866."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Fray, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 27 January 2013 by pam fray [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3310817] [accessed 18 February 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter & St Paul Church, Ospringe, Kent" -- the outer colonnettes of the base, the lower base and plinth are modern; so is the font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 16 April 2008 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/769288] [accessed 18 Feberuary 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 06888OSP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: St.Peter & St.Paul's Church, Water Ln, Ospringe, Faversham ME13 8XS, United Kingdom -- Tel. +44 1795 532592
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located N of the M2, S of the London Rd, about one mile SW of Faversham, 15-16 km WNW of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Faversham [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] -- 13th century [lower base] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ospringe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR0060/ospringe/] [accessed 18 February 2023]; it reports a church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Norman, square Bethersden marble bowl, with five shallow arches each side. Set on five shafts, in the usual way [i.e., a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes], with E[arly] E[nglish]-looking bases." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TR0008960195] [accessed 18 February 2023] notes: "Parish Church. Circa 1200, with C14 chapel and C15 fenest- ration rebuilt and restored 1858-70 [...] C12 Bethersden marble font with arcading of 5 shallow arches on each face, on 5 shafts with water holding bases." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with panels on each face; subsidiary shafts modern" [source given: Dr. G.C. Dunning]. Round and flat wooden cover, with metal decorations and ring handle; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.30829, 0.87526
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 18′ 29.84″ N, 0° 52′ 30.94″ E
UTM: 31U 351905 5686253
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Bethersden marble) / limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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