Sundridge

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 7 records
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
BU02: human figure - head - 8
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of church exterior - southwest end
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 12134SUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A25, NW of Sevenoaks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner
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
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl on a stem, with heads under the bowl." Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal and plain, except for eight crudely carved corbel heads." Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]. The font consists of a plain octagonal basin with a moulded underbowl on the lower level of which are eight human (?) heads, raised on a plain octagonal stem and a moulded lower base of like shape; on a small octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle, modern. [NB: a church may have existed on this site since 862 AD, but we have no information on the earlier fonts]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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