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

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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

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Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)

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view of font

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Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: drawing and engraving by William Deeble for the 'Antiquarian Itinerary' (1815-1818)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11832HAR
Church/Chapel: Hospital Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just W of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
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
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
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