East Malling
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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James the Great, East Malling"
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Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2020 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James_the_Great,_East_Malling.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2023]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James the Great's Church, Church Walk, East Malling, Borough of Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, England. The ancient parish church of East Malling."
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Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2012 by The Voice of Hassocks [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_James_the_Great's_Church,_East_Malling_(NHLE_Code_1099148).JPG] [accessed 19 November 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChurchCrawler, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2009 by ChurchCrawler [http://www.flickr.com/photos/churchcrawler/2757266890/] [accessed 9 February 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12043MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: Church Walk, East Malling, West Malling ME19 6AG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1732 843282
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A20/M20, 8-9 km WNW of Maidstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Font Notes:
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Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl and stem. The cover is of wood, with rather elegant carving and friezed tracery." Noted in Newman (1976): one of the two tallest font covers in the county, with doors, 16th-century -- the other is Newington. [NB: the font is believed to be contemporary with the cover]: "Font cover. Early C16, with doors. Conical cap of pierced tracery. Also a pireced cresting repeating a pattern of birds fiercely attacking fruit that has a positively Viking spirit." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ7024357115] notes: "Church. C12, C14, rebuilt circa 1450-1500 [...] Font area: Early C16, with doors. Tall panelled base with tall conical cap of pierced tracery. Pierced cresting to base of birds attacking fruit. Octagonal stone font."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 321540 5684897
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.2874, 0.440711
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 17′ 14.64″ N, 0° 26′ 26.56″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th century (early?)
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, of the rim-buffet type [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 154
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 71
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 71, 265