Dymchurch

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Dymchurch/DymchurchStPeter&StPaul2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Dymchurch/DymchurchStPeter&StPaul2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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view of church interior - chancel arch

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Dymchurch/DymchurchStPeter&StPaul2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Dymchurch/DymchurchStPeter&StPaul2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the re-cut font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Dymchurch/DymchurchStPeter&StPaul2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11566DYM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Hythe, on the coast and the Romney Marsh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century [re-cut], Medieval [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
There is no mention of a font in Glynne (1877), who visited this church in 1868. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. A plain but curious piece, circular bowl on an octagonal shaft on a base consisting of a fat roll resting on four fins. C13, or C15, or could it be of the 1660s?" The Dymchurch Parish Church online guide' online [www.dymchurchchurch.org.uk] notes: "The font [...] is thought to be mediaeval [...] It is very possible that the font was thrown out of the church by the Lollards [...] The font was rescued from a dyke in the 15th century, retooled and reinstated in the church. The present oak lid was made by Raymond 'Click' Smith." [NB: this same source notes that "the two opposing spaces which accommodated the hinges may clearly be seen"]. The illustration shown in the above web site shows a round basin with a thick round moulding at the upper ring, raised on a polygonal stem decorated with another round moullding at the bottom; the lowe base is round-to-square, and is raised on a square plinth; the wooden cover is round [NB: the present shape of the font is very uncharacteristic of the 15th century; it is possible it was re-tooled at a much later date, perhaps the 17th century as suggested in Newman above]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980