Lydd

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
B01: design element - patterns - gadrooned
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Lydd/LyddAllSaints2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - patterns - gadrooned
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Lydd/LyddAllSaints2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - west tower
view of church interior - nave - looking east
INFORMATION
FontID: 12114LYD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the Romney Marsh, in the S of the county
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: another large church that is also called "The Cathedral of Romney Marsh"
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Mid-C18. Gadrooned on bowl and stem." Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Lydd/LyddAllSaints2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]. [NB: the fabric of the church may go back to Saxon times, and its tower is 15th-century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
REFERENCES
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980