Canterbury No. 13
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view of baptistery exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Machado, 2009
Image Source: digital version in [http://www.machadoink.com/The%20Cathedral.htm] [accessed 16 February 2009]
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view of baptistery exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Machado, 2009
Image Source: digital version in [http://www.machadoink.com/The%20Cathedral.htm] [accessed 16 February 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 17 February 2009)
view of baptistery interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Machado, 2009
Image Source: digital version in [http://www.machadoink.com/The%20Cathedral.htm] [accessed 16 February 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 17 February 2009)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13233CAN
Object Type: Baptistery?
Font Date: ca. 740-760?
Font Century and Period/Style: 8th century (mid?), Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: "Located originally to the east of the main cathedral church" [cf. FontNotes]
Additional Comments: emailed Tina Machado req'g permit to use her photos -- she agrees & offers to send others if needed -- email rec'd 17 Feb. 2009
Font Notes:
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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".
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
REFERENCES
- Brooks, Nicholas, The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1984, p. 40
- 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, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Cuthbert,_Archbishop_of_Canterbury] [accessed 24 November 2007]