Cooling

Results: 3 records

B01: symbol - cross - Latin - on a step

on the E side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: on the E side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

B02: symbol - disc - 4

above and below the arms of the cross on the E side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: above and below the arms of the cross on the E side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 12088COO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James (redundant)
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional
Font Notes:
Torr (1930) suggests a date ca. 1200 for this font, "unless the ornament was added later to a Norman bowl". Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. C13. Of the Purbeck type. The square bowl on five circular shafts. Five trefoiled arches sunk slightly into each side. The E face with a cross in the centre, on a stepped base and with two discs above and below each arm." The whole is raised on a two-step plinth. A recent [2003] photograph of this font can be seen in the Kent Reosurces web site [www.digiserve.com/peter/cooling-sj2_e.htm]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980
Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930