Barham
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Results: 2 records
LB01:
design element - motifs - moulding or piping
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P. E. Blanche & Kent Resources, 2002
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P. E. Blanche & Kent Resources, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph by P. E. Blanche in Kent Resources [ww.digiserve.com/peter/barham-jb1.htm] -- PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 12055BAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [altered?], Decorated [altered?]
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl, upon a central stem and four corner shafts". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides; graded underbowl chamfer, raised on a quadrangular stem decorated with angle and top-and bottom piping, raised on a quadrangular lower base with a chamfered upper part, and a rectangular plinth. Wooden cover consisting of a flat octagonal base on which the usual ribs-around-a-pivot, with ball finial. The Kent Resources site [www.digiserve.com/peter/barham-jb1.htm] illustrates the font and cover, and states that the font is 14th-century, the cover Jacobean. [NB: were the four corner shafts of the base removed after Glynne's time?]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean? / 17th century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: n0
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
