Edenbridge
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2007 by John Salmon; Reproduced under the provisions of the Creative Commons Licence
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12093EDE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Edenbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: 12 Church St, Edenbridge TN8 5BD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1732 862258
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 9 km SW of Sevenoaks
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Notes:
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Not mentioned in Glynne (1877). Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Stone, but the Purbeck marble type. Square arcaded bowl on five shafts -- Font cover. Ogee-shaped, with crockets up the ribs." The font consists of a square basin with four trefoiled arches on each side, with a chamfered underbowl that has moulded capitals at the corners for the outer support columns; the central shaft is polygonal and plain; the square lower base incorporates at the four corners moulded bases for the outer support columns; on a two-step plinth.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 274