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INFORMATION

FontID: 13200LON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Stephen the Martyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Victoria St., S of Artillery Row
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1850?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Church Notes: [Church built by Benjamin Ferrey] -- "[the] Church has been built and endowed at the sole cost and charge of Miss Burdett Coutts—a large act of munificence which must endear the name and memory of this pious lady to the Christian world. It originated in a sweet impulse of filial affection. Miss Coutts being anxious to raise a memorial to her father, the late Sir Francis Burdett, rightly conceived that no more appropriate mode of carrying her wishes into effect could be adopted than that of building and endowing a church in the heart of that city with which her revered parent's name had been so many years intimately associated. The first stone of the Church was laid July 20, 1847; and a report of the interesting proceedings, with a view of the exterior of the edifice, will be found In the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, No. 273" [source: http://www.londonancestor.com/iln/st-stephen-church.htm] [accessed 20 October 2007]
Noted and illustrated in The Illustrated London News (issue of 29 June 1850). Octagonal basin decorated with charged shields, scenes, etc., raised on several colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases; on the plinth, four sejant lambs (?); on an octagonal plinth the sides of which are decorated with quatrefoils. A recent [2007?] photograph of this font appears on the Parish web site [http://www.sswsj.org/history/interior12.htm] [accessed 20 October 2007]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1850?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with pivot finial