Rye

Harrison (1920) reports two stoups in this church, "one in N[orth] aisle of nave, the other in S[outh] porch", but does mention a font in it. The font at this church is a modern copy of the font at Newenden [cf. Index entry for Newenden]. A square table-top type font, in the style of the Tournai fonts of the 12th and 13th century, the basin desides decorated with an assortment of the roundels with twisted animals and floral/foliage motifs, acanthus leaves, etc. [Partial view of the font seen in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/713846533/] [accessed 22 July 2007]. Holloway (1847) notes that "the original church stood in the Gun-garden" and "was built during or previous to the reign of Edward the Confessor, which lasted from 1041 to 1066 and that it was destroyed before the end of the twelfth century." Holloway (ibid.) adds that the present church is likely to have been built just before the end of the 12th century. Of a font in the church at Rye Holloway notes the following: in 1524 an entry in the parish books reports payment to "The pewterer, for mending the font... 1s 11d"; that between 1558 and 1570 the church contained "a font with a cover". [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font(s) of this church, other than the modern copy of Newenden's own]