Tilmanstone

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12076TIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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. Torr (1930) writes: "Of Norman date, the fonts at Upper Hardres, Westwell, Tilmanstone and Fordwich (without angle shafts) may serve as examples of the arcaded bowl type". Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Norman. The usual arcaded square bowl, of local marble, on five shafts."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble? / limestone?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928