Bicknor / Bykenore

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 6 April 2011 by Oast House Archive [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346193] [accessed 28 February 2018] EXT W digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by Chris Whippet [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5025898] [accessed 28 February 2018] INT E digital photograph taken 30 July 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/324684] [accessed 28 February 2018] copyright 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2011 by Oast House Archive [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346193] [accessed 28 February 2018]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by Chris Whippet [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5025898] [accessed 28 February 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/324684] [accessed 28 February 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12054BIC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Bicknor, Sittingbourne ME9 8AY, UK -- Tel.: +44 7402 717325

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located between the M2 (E) and the M20 (W) NE of Maidstone

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Eyhorne

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

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Hasted (1798) writes: "The church, which is dedicated to St. James the Apostle [...] is a very antient and curious building, and appears by the short and clumsy size, and bases of the pillars, the zig-zag ornaments of their capitals, and the semi-circular plain arches in every part of it, to have been built in the time of the Saxons; indeed, the whole of it has marks of a very early period'; no font mentioned in Hasted's entry. Newman (1976) reports: "Font. Of c.1867. A hefty pink and grey marble thing. right for this church." [NB: Newman's comment is related to the 1859-1861 renovation of this formerly-Norman church by George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907), Victorian church architect, disciple of George Gilbert Scott; Bodley worked chiefly in the neo-Gothic style]. Newman (ibid.) points out the new font at Hucking, also in Kent, as a pair to Bicknor's. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.2981, 0.6674

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 17' 53" N, 0° 40' 2" E

UTM: 31U 337399 5685604

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

REFERENCES

Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976