Canterbury No. 13
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view of baptistery exterior
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view of baptistery exterior
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view of baptistery interior
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13233CAN
Church/Chapel: Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: "Located originally to the east of the main cathedral church" [cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 740-760?
Century and Period: 8th century (mid?), Early Christian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Henrietta Leyser, of St. Peter's College, Oxford, for bringing this baptistery to our attention, and to Tina Machado, of www.machadoink.com, for her archival images of the building
The entry for Cuthbert in the Catholic Encyclpaedia (1913) notes: "A chapel was [...] built at the east end of the cathedral dedicated to St. John the Baptist to serve as the baptistery, the court of the archbishops and their place of burial". Brooks (1984) writes about the Canterbury cathedral complex, "following the pattern adopted by Eadmer in his 'De Reliquiis'", and "the most easterly structure, the church of St. John the Baptist. The building is termed by Eadmer an 'ecclesia' and by the Christ Church cartulary a 'basilica'; both agree that it was built by Archbishop Cuthbert (740-60) and that it lay to the east of the main cathedral church, but so close as to almost touching it. Since the church was a baptistery, it must have had some form of basin or font".
REFERENCES
Brooks, Nicholas, The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1984
Herbermann, Charles George, The Catholic encyclopedia;|ban international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church, New York: The Encyclopedia Press, 1913
