Ruckinge

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken September/October 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]

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view of church exterior - west tower

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Image Source: digital photograph taken September/October 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken September/October 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken September/October 2006 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16008RUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the N end of the Romney Marsh
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by one of the pillars
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of http://www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl on a stem". Illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Ruckinge/RuckingeStMary2005.htm] [accessed 11 February 2010]. Both basin and base are octagonal and plain, the underbowl chamfered. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877