River nr. Dover

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12069RIV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, River
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Minnis Lane, River, Canterbury CT17 0RG, UK
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off A256, just NW of Dover
Font Notes:
Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) with a group of Norman-period fonts on which "the arcading is rather rudely represented by a succession of shallow sunk panels with semicircular heads [...] the only adornment" of the basin. Newman (1976), however: "Font. C13. Octagonal bowl, with two trefoiled arches sunk on each face. Made of Purbeck marble." [to be resolved]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 430
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 75