Wye

Results: 2 records

B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 4

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - 4

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06964WYE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory and St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great & St. Martin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NE of Ashford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is Third Pointed, has an octagonal bowl panelled with quatrefoils containing roses; the stem octagonal also." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Iggleston (1925) with 15th-century date. Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal, the sides of the stem and bowl sligthly hollowed. Roses and shields alternately in quatrefoils."

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
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Igglesden, Charles, A saunter through Kent, with pen and pencil, Ashford: The Kentish Press, 1925
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976