Margate

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Results: 7 records

B01: coat of arms - Royal Arms of England

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: coat of arms - Cinque Ports

Scene Description: [i.e., a confederation of the ports of Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney and Sandwich, that gained its first known charter in 1260, though it existed long before that]

B03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

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LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - cusped - 8

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06957MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located at the northeastmost coastal tip of the county
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1485?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
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
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976