Eynsford / Eynesford

Results: 5 records

B01: symbol - shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: on the west side

B02: symbol - shield - emblem - Tau cross

Scene Description: on the south side

B03: symbol - shield - emblem - see of Canterbury

Scene Description: on the east side

B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of font

INFORMATION

FontID: 06951EYN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A225, just SE of Swanley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [moved: cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in Hussey (1852), Cox & Harvey (1907) and Newman (1980) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is an octagon, each face charged alternately with shields and roses, the shields bearing different devices." [NB: C&H and Glynne have "Eynesford"]. Noted and illustrated in the Parish website [http://www.efl-churches.org/hist_stmart.htm] [accessed 17 February 2010]: "The font is 15th Century and of Kentish ragstone. It was originally by the door where a font is traditionally placed but was moved to make space for an organ console in 1967. On the west face are the cross and crown of thorns, on the south face a tau cross representing baptism. On the east face is the pall from the arms of Canterbury. The other faces are carved with single roses."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Kentish ragstone)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
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
Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980