Wrotham / Broteham

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Scene Description: Source caption: "The font dates from the 13th century and probably dates back to the original church on the site. It is octagonal in shape and remarkable because it has two shallow sunk panels on each of its eight sides [...] The bowl is supported by eight columns which are a later addition and may have replaced earlier columns."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in St George's Church, Wrotham [https://www.wrothamchurch.org/history/images/Font.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2024]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "St George, Wrotham"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 May 2021 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_George,_Wrotham,_May_2021.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2024]

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Image Source: Digital image in the Wrotham Parish Council [www.wrothampc.kentparishes.gov.uk]

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Image Source: digital photograph in St George's Church, Wrotham [https://www.wrothamchurch.org/history/images/Font.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06937WRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Church Location: High St, Wrotham, Sevenoaks TN15 7AH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1732 882211

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located just W of the M20-M26 junction, 10-12 km NE of Sevenoaks

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester

Historical Region: Hundred of Wrotham [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English [altered]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Wrotham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ6159/wrotham/] [accessed 3 June 2024]; it reports a church in it. The Antiquary (August 26th, 1871, p. 106) reports of an excursion of the Kent Archaeological Society to Wrotham Church, where they note "a genuine early English" font. Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is Early English, of octagonal form, each face moulded with two plain pointed arches; the shaft is of cylindrical form, and is attached to one of the pillars of the nave." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. C13. Octagonal, with two shallow sunk arches on each face." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ6118359189] notes: "Church. Early C14 with C15 west tower [...] Font. C13, stone, octagonal, 2 shallow sunk arches on each face." The St George's Church, Wrotham [https://www.wrothamchurch.org/history/font_pulpit_piscinas.html] [accessed 3 June 2024] notes and illustrates the font in it: "The font dates from the 13th century and probably dates back to the original church on the site. It is octagonal in shape and remarkable because it has two shallow sunk panels on each of its eight sides. Each of these panels probably contained a carving of a single figure, but they have all been effaced. The bowl is supported by eight columns which are a later addition and may have replaced earlier columns."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.308994, 0.311125

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 18′ 32.38″ N, 0° 18′ 40.05″ E

UTM: 31U 312594 5687621

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: octagonal dome-shaped

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