Mersham

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 2

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - architectural - arch - Ogee - cusped - 2

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06945MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km SE of Ashford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is of square form, each face sculptured with an ogee arch." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Square bowl. Quatrefoils in circles on two sides. Cusped ogee arches on the other two."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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