Ightham / Ehtaham / Ightam
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 April 2018]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 January 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 January 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2014 by Michael Garlick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IGHTHAM_St_PETER'S_CHURCH_The_font.JPG] [accessed 15 April 2018]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 January 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 January 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2014 by Michael Garlick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IGHTHAM_St_PETER'S_CHURCH.JPG] [accessed 15 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2014 by Michael Garlick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IGHTHAM_St_PETER'S_CHURCH_The_nave_showing_the_two_tier_chandelier_made_in_1579.JPG] [accessed 15 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06955IGH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Fen Pond Road, Ightham, Kent, TN15 9JD, United Kingdom, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1732 886827
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A25, 6-8 km NE of Sevenoaks, 10 km N of Tonbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Additional Comments: altered font (the lower base appears to be a modern replacement)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Ightham in the Domesday survey. Hussey (1852) writes: "The font is a plain octagon on a stem." Ditto in Glynne (1877). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides and a short chamferred underbowl; raised on a plain octagonal stem and a moulded lower base; this part appars to be a modern replacement; octagona plinth with kneeling extension. The wooden cover is octagonal and plai; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 310767 5685451
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.2889, 0.2861
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 17′ 20.04″ N, 0° 17′ 9.96″ 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: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 298
- 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, [no. 177]