Ashurst / Ashurt nr. Tunbridge Wells

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

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Results: 5 records

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

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Ashurst/AshurstChurch1980.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4

Scene Description: only on the outer colonnettes, not on the central shaft -- [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Ashurst/AshurstChurch1980.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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view of church exterior - west end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font visible at the west end, behind the south (left) bank of pews

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Ashurst/AshurstChurch1980.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06890ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A264, 9-10 km W of Tunbridge Wells (dir. East Grinstead)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of http://www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl, on a cylindrical stem, surrounded by four shafts at the angles." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. C13. On five shafts, the square bowl arcaded and rounded at the corners." The basin has three pointed arches on each side, as well as one on each corner, to a total of sixteen; the outer shafts are round at the top, where they connect with the underbowl chamfer and have graded mouldings as capitals, but the are octagonal at the lower end, and have also moulded bases; on a square lower base, and a modern plinth that is quadrangular with kneeling extension. The inner well of the basin is round and lead-lined.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

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, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980