Barham / Berham
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding or piping
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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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
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12055BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [altered?], Decorated [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Barham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church Ln, Barham, Canterbury CT4 6PB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1227 668090
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A2, 10 km SE of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Barham [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Barham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR2050/barham/] [accessed 28 June 2025], one of which, in the tenancy of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, reports a church in it. 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, p. 130
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 364