Cowden nr. East Grinstead / Cudena

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Results: 5 records

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

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 06950COW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Church St, Cowden, Edenbridge TN8 7NE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1342 850221
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.14442, 0.0943
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 39.91″ N, 0° 5′ 39.48″ E
UTM: 31U 296760 5669900

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
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980