Fairfield nr. Brookland
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Fairfield/FairfieldStThomas2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Fairfield/FairfieldStThomas2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxfordshire Church Illustrations, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/565027973/] [accessed 22 July 2007]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxfordshire Church Illustrations, 2007
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12095FAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / 17th century, Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket, Fairfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Address: Romney Marsh TN29 9RX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1797 343977
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A259, in Walland Marsh, just WNW of Brookland, in the SE corner of the county
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hussey (1852) with reference to Hasted (1797). Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Plain, heptagonal. Possibly Perp[endicular], or possibly of the 1660s." Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Fairfield/FairfieldStThomas2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]: "The font is plain, and a design unique in Kent. The bowl has seven sides, perhaps a reminder of the seven sacrements of the church. It was originally located on the north side of the church, but is now in the centre, underneath the turret." Also notable of this font is the shape of the lower base: it is of a general polygonal shape, but two (?) of its sides removed, or rather, not there, since it appears to be the original shape rather than an alteration. On an octagonal plinth.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: heptagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
- Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, [no. 120]
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 281