River nr. Dover

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12069RIV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on A256, just NW of Dover
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928