Betteshanger / Bedesham / Betleshangre
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 January 2018 ny Josh Tilley [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_Betteshanger_1.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2020]
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Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2016 by Jelltex [www.flickr.com/photos/jelltecks/26045322676/in/photostream/] [accessed 14 October 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15988BET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: reported by Nick Smith in Geograph: "Betteshanger Church, now used by Northbourne Park School." [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/303684] [accessed 10 February 2010]
Church Address: Northbourne, Deal CT14 0NN, UK
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) th A256, 5-6 km W of Deal, 18 km N of Dover
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Eastry
Additional Comments: disused font? The church now [2007] used by a school
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Betteshanger [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR3152/betteshanger/] [accessed 14 October 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor a church in it. Glynne writes: "The font is a small modern Gothic one". There may have been a new font introduced synce Glynne's time, a tub with a rounded underbowl and five short columns, a Victorian version of a 13th-century font. ]NB: the fabric of the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 382690 5676187
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.225, 1.32
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 13′ 30″ N, 1° 19′ 12″ E
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 170