Westerham / Oistreham
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 April 2017)
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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symbol - shield - blank - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a quatrefoil - in a square
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin; the motifs or symbols on the northeast and southeast are not identified -- notice the damage on the southeast side of the basin, with a crack line showing also across the east panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a square
Scene Description: two of the are visible here, on the west and southwest sides of the font
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil - in a square
Scene Description: one such seen here, on the northwest side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Farmer, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2009 by Paul Farmer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_rear_of_the_Parish_Church_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin_Westerham_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1421412.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2017]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phillip Capper, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2010 by Phillip Capper [www.flickr.com/photos/42033648@N00/5011828189] [accessed 5 April 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font at the west end of the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4623667] [accessed 5 April 2017]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - arch or window - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 April 2017)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06963WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Green, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1AS
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A25, just S of the M25, 8 km W of Sevenoaks, SSE of London
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Historical Region: Hundred of Westerham
Additional Comments: famous person font: general James Wolfe believed baptised in it [Major-general James Wolfe (1727-1759) conqueror of Quebec, Canada -- born in Westerham - buried in Greenwich
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Westerham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4454/westerham/] [accessed 5 April 2017], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne (1877) writes: "The font is octagonal, ornamented with quatrefoils, and has a panelled pedestal." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Standard Perp[endicular]. Octagonal. Quatrefoils on the bowl."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 295868 5683640
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.267494, 0.073752
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 16′ 2.98″ N, 0° 4′ 25.51″ E
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
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. p. 281
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 595