East Langdon

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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BU01: angel - demi-figure

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

BU02: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of font

Scene Description: the composite font in 2008

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06943LAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Augustine
Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A258, 5 km N of Dover
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [composite font], Decorated? / Perpendicular? [compositefont]
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl, moulding and contracting towards the base which is surrounded by a band of foliage, the shaft octagonal and plain." [NB: the base mentioned in Glynne is no longer part of the font -- cf. infra]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Newman (1976), however: "Font. Perp[endicular] bowl. Leaves and half-length angels on the underside." Noted and illustrated by ChurchCrawler http://www.flickr.com/photos/churchcrawler/2669543736/] [accessed 5 February 2010]: "an oddly assembled font (ornate bowl with foliage, faces including one of the devil it seems on a mismatched triple shafted base, largely C19 but with one original capital)".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rp
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
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976