Edenbridge

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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 12093EDE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located about 9 km SW of Sevenoaks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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