Elmsted nr. Canterbury / Elmstead / Elmstead Court / Elmsted Court

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: digital photograph 3 March 2010 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James,_Elmsted,_Kent_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1737016.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St James the Great, Elmsted St. James the Great is the parish church of Elmsted and it is a commanding building with flint walls. Earliest reference to a church in Elmsted comes from the Canterbury monks Domesday Monachorum of c1100 a record from Archbishop Lanfrancs time (1070-1089)."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Smith, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 10 April 2009 by Nick Smith [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_church_of_St_James_the_Great,_Elmsted_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1245901.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates from the late 11th century onwards and was restored in 1877 by Ewan Christian. It is built with knapped flint and stone dressings with tiled roofs. There is a west tower, nave with north and south aisles, south porch and chancel with north and south chapels. The tower is from the 13th century with an earlier base [...] The font bowl is from the 12th century made of Purbeck marble and supported on modern shafts."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph 11 July 2013 by Jules & Jenny [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elmstead,_St_James_the_great_church_(25292410718).jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St James, Elmsted, Kent - East end" -- the basin of the old font is partially visible on the left

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 3 March 2010 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James,_Elmsted,_Kent_-_East_end_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1737033.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St James, Elmsted, Kent - Font"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 3 March 2010 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James,_Elmsted,_Kent_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1737016.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06918ELM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Elmsted, Ashford TN25 5JT, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Elmstead [or Elmsted] Court is located 13-15 km SWS of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Romanesque [altered]
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl, each face moulded with shallow arches, on a cylindrical stem with eight legs." A baptismal font of the Early English period is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) in "Elmstead", Kent [NB: Cockford's uses "Elmsted"; the AA Atlas uses both "Elmstead Court" and "Elmsted Court". The benefit is "with Hastingleigh, nearby]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Newman (1976) writes: "Font. Local marble. Norman, decorated with shallow arcading, and set on modern shafts. The unusual thing about it is its shape - octagonal." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TR1178645546] notes: "Parish Church. Late Cll or C12, C13 and C14, restored in 1877 [...] Late Cll or C12 font, low, deep, octagonal, with two panels of blind arcading to each side, circular central pier and eight slender perimeter columns.]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1646, 1.026
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 52.56″ N, 1° 1′ 33.6″ E
UTM: 31U 361982 5669982

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Pubeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining

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
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