London No. 77

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13647LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1683?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late?), Stuart
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Augustine [aka St. Austin]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine of Hippo
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The church was located in the SE corner of Old Change and Watling Street
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts?
Font Notes:
Allen (1839?) writes that this church was already mentioned in the books of the dean and chapter of St. Paul's in 1181, and that it "was destroyed by the fire of London, on the ruins of which the present edifice was erected […] The architect was sir Christopher Wren. The church was rebuilt after the fire in 1683 […] The font is situated in a dark corner near the western entrance, it is circular in form, and carved with cherub heads; the obscurity of its situation, added to the appropriation of the pew in which it stands, as a receptacle for rubbish, renders it scarcely visible". Blatch (1995) reports that this church "was destroyed by bombing in 1941". [NB: the font reported in Allen (ibid.) is likely the one from Wren's re-building of 1683, and no information has been found so dar of its present whereabouts; the 12th-century (?) font of the original church is also unaccounted for in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
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. 525 / [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#PPA371,M1] [accessed 26 July 2008]
  • Blatch, Mervyn, Guide to London's churches (2. ed.), London: Constable, 1995, p. 180