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B01: design element - patterns

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 12115MEO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 15 km from Dartford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Meonstoke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6120/meonstoke/] [accessed 27 June 2018], neither of which reports priest or church in it. Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is a plain octagon with fluted sides." Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal bowl, its gently concave sides carved with shallow patterns, each one different." [NB: Glynne (ibid.) notes that a ceremony of re-dedication of this church, "after it had been rebuilt […] took place upon the 2nd of the Ides of May , 1325 -- we have no information of the earlier font(s) from either period]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980