Old Romney / Romenel / Rumene

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LB01: design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: detail of a photograph in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=56502806/] [accessed 22 July 2007]

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2007 by Holly Hayes

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LB03: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - atlante?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2007 by Holly Hayes

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LB04: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - crouching

Image Source: detail of a photograph in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=56502806/] [accessed 22 July 2007]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/OldRomney/OldRomneyStClement2005.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/OldRomney/OldRomneyStClement2005.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2007 by Holly Hayes

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/OldRomney/OldRomneyStClement2005.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12122ROM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Clement

Church Patron Saints: St. Clement

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A259, about 20 km SSE of Ashford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, and to Holly Hayes, of www.sacreddestinationsphotography.com, for their photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Hasted (1799) notes: "The font is very antient, supported on four stone pillars." Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl, on a central plain stem, and four angle shafts having square bases and capitals with Early English mouldings and varied figures and foliage." Noted in Newman (1980): "Font, an outstanding piece of C14. It is of a type characteristic rather of the C13, a square bowl of Kentish marble supported on a square central stem and four circular shafts at the corners; t. The shafts have finely moulded caps and bases still entirely E[arly] E[nglish] in spirit, but pinned on to the caps are tiny atlantes figures holding up the abaci, tiny heads and leaves, and the leaves are of the bulgy sort which is unmistakably Dec[orated]." The Romney Deanery web site [www.romneydeanery.org.uk/OldRomney.shtml] identifies the font as "of Purbeck marble, circa 1300 AD". Described and illustrated by Mark Collins, in the Roughwood.net web site: "The font is unusual and dates from c. 1300. It has a bowl of Purbeck marble which is supported on a plinth and base of Caen stone. The supporting columns have carved capitals depicting men, beasts and foliage" [source: www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/OldRomney/OldRomney/StClement2005.htm]. [NB: a detailed image of the base found in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=56502806/] [accessed 22 July 2007], in which two of the figures can be seen, one atlante-like, the other crouching, noth grotesque at first sight.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck / Kentish)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; appears modern

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877

Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-

Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980