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Scene Description: the modern font in which the poet John Keats was baptised
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font in which the poet John Keats was baptised
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the modern font in which the poet John Keats was baptised
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Basher Eyre [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Botolph-without-Bishopsgate_1.JPG] [accesed 13 July 2013]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font in which the poet John Keats was baptised
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI
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view of church interior - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13621LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Date Visited: 2013-06-28
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Notes: "Church of England church on the west side of Bishopsgate in the City of London, first mentioned in 1212. It survived the Great Fire of London in 1666, and was rebuilt in 1724-9." [source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Botolph-without-Bishopsgate [accessed 13 July 2013]]
Church Address: Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL, United Kingdom
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the W side of Bishopsgate Street, near St. Helen's Church [Tube: Liverpool Street station]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / famous person font: the lost font was the one in which Edward Alleyn (1566–1626), English actor, was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of Dulwich College and Alleyn's School, was baptised -- the present font is the one in which John Keats was baptised in 1795
Font Notes:
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Allen (1839?) notes that ''the font is a circular basin of veined marble on a pedestal of the same form, and is situated beneath the northern gallery'' Allen (ibid.) further notes that the old church, which dated back to at least 1323, ''became so ruinous, that it was taken down in 1725, and re-built, being finished in 1729'', a date from which this ''veined marble'' object is likely to belong [NB: Blatch (1995) gives the completion date 1728]. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Diameter (inside rim): [46-47 cm]*
Diameter (includes rim): [54 cm]*
Basin Total Height: [28 cm]*
Height of Base: [65 cm]*
Font Height (less Plinth): [97 cm]*
Font Height (with Plinth): [107 cm]*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements of the present font] BSI on-site
REFERENCES
- Allen, Thomas, The History and Antiquities of London, Wsetminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent, London: published by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, [1839?], p. 127 / [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BVEGAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA717&lpg=RA1-PA717&dq=queenhithe+church+font&source=web&ots=9dzBGxXJDM&sig=mvPDHDDOyNJa-B_jKtBxJr4-Ny4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result] [accessed 16 July 2008]
- Blatch, Mervyn, Guide to London's churches (2. ed.), London: Constable, 1995, p. 53