Cowden nr. East Grinstead / Cudena
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font is said to be originally 15thC but so drastically re-cut as to appear modern
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 18 March 2017 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5337299] [accessed 29 October 2019]
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design element - motifs - varied - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Scene Description: At least one of the re-cut motifs is a head.
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oast House Archive, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2010 by Oast House Archive [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1816939] [accessed 29 October 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2017 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5337358] [accessed 29 October 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2017 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5337300] [accessed 29 October 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06950COW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Church St, Cowden, Edenbridge TN8 7NE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1342 850221
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the A264, W of the B2026, 5 km ENE of East Grinstead, SW of Tonbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Additional Comments: altered font / restored font: much re-tooled / re-cut
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Cowden in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in Hastead (1797) notes; "The church, which is a small mean building, has a handsome spire, and stands on the eastern side of the village. It is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen. [...] This church is a rectory, the advowson of which was granted, among other premises, by king Edward VI. in his fourth year [i.e., 1550], to Ralph Fane, to hold in capite by knight's service"; no fnot mentioned. Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font is Perpendicular, the bowl octagonal and panelled." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. In Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal, with the usual encircled quatrefoils. Much retooled." The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1085906] notes: "C13 nave, chancel is late C13 or early C14, S porch, bell turret, spire and roofs C15. N aisle built in 1838 to designs by H Whichord; it was rebuilt and the NE vestry added in 1884 [...] Font, C15 in style, polygonal with quatrefoils with fleurons on the bowl, but much recut in the C19."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 296760 5669900
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.14442, 0.0943
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 8′ 39.91″ N, 0° 5′ 39.48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: pill-box shaped; octagonal; inscription on the sides; modern
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 204
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 180
- Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-, vol. 3: 203-210
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 241