Harbledown No. 2 / Harbledon / Herbaldoune / Herbaldowne
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BU01: animal - unidentified
Scene Description: several. one on each of the side of the underbowl chamfer
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Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)
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LB01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: on the panels of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11832HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Hospital Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: The Church of Hospital of St. Nicholas, also known as 'Leper Church', the original function of which was that of a Leper Hospital in its foundation in 1084
Church Address: St Nicholas Hospital, Church Hill, Harbledown, Canterbury CT2 9AD, United Kingdom
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A2050, just W of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? Norman?
Font Notes:
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Illustrated with a drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818). The font here is noted also in Hussey (1852): "St. Nicholas was long a parish church, having a font and a churchyard, and the incumbent was styled rector." The font is octagonal of basin, stem and base; there are animals decorating the underbowl chamfer, tracery on the stem and graded mouldings on the lower base. The octagonal wooden cover appears flat and plain.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of archictecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic, with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain, London: Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke [...], 1815-1818, plate
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, [no. 155]