Margate
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish Church of St John's, Margate, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.st-johnschurch.co.uk/history2.htm]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish Church of St John's, Margate, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.st-johnschurch.co.uk/history2.htm]
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LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - cusped - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish Church of St John's, Margate, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.st-johnschurch.co.uk/history2.htm]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish Church of St John's, Margate, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.st-johnschurch.co.uk/history2.htm]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish Church of St John's, Margate, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.st-johnschurch.co.uk/history2.htm]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06957MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1485?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the northeastmost coastal tip of the county
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Carved with roses and the arms of England and the Cinque Ports." Illustrated in the Parish web site [www.st-johnschurch.co.uk/history2.html] [NB: this source gives the date as 1485 and notes that "the stonework is now very fragile [...] A modern portable font is now used for baptisms."]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
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, p. 204
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 377