London No. 69

Results: 2 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13637LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1685?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late?), Stuart? / Jacobean?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Christopher Wren? / heraldic font?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen [burnt down in 1886]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The church was located on the N side of Knightrider Street, at the W corner of Old Fish Street
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts? Both the medieval and the Wren font?
Font Notes:
Allen (1839?) writes: "The old [medieval] edifice was destroyed by the fire of London; and the present building was erected in the year 1685 […] sir C. Wren being the architect […] The font, in the north-west angle of the church, is a circular basin of marble on a balluster, adorned with cherubs heads, and a shield, bearing on a lozenge a cross ermine, between four bucks trippant, the colours are lost in consquence of the whole being gilt." Blatch (1995) reports that St. Mary Magdalene "burned down in 1886".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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. 351 / [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 20 July 2008]
  • Blatch, Mervyn, Guide to London's churches (2. ed.), London: Constable, 1995, p. 116