Biddenden / Biddenen

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

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06916BID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A262 and the A274, 30-35 km N of Hastings
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is octagon, with pointed arches, slightly sunk in the sides, on a stem of eight small columns, the latter recently renewed, badly." Described in Glynne (1877). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Kent Churches web site informs that "the font, sedilia and piscina are all designed to show off the local 'Bethersden Marble, the only local stone that can take a polish". In Newman (1980): "Font. C13. Octagonal bowl of local marble with two sunk pointed arches on each face. The shafts of the base new."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Bethersden marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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
Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980