New Romney

An undated pre-1945 (?) postcard with title "The font and Jacobean screen" [source: eBay sale item no. 170443985468] [accessed 13 February 2010] shows part of the interior of this church, including the 17th-century wooden screen and a baptismal font consisting of a small hemispheric basin with moulded sides raised on a decorated baluster-shaped base. It is obviously a font much later than the Norman fabric of the church [NB: the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/NewRomney/NewRomneyStNicholas2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010] notes: "St Nicholas is the sole survivor of New Romney's four medieval churches and dates mainly from the 12th century", but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]. [NB: the New Romney Town Council news website for 18 January 2008 [http://www.newromneytc.kentparishes.gov.uk/default.cfm?pid=news&newsid=891] [accessed 13 February 2009] notes: "At the Western end of the church, there is an oak screen dated 1662 that replaced an earlier oak gallery, erected in 1603. On the right, as we enter the nave from the tower, is the Font, the bowl having been made from Purbeck Marble." A recent [5 June 2007] photograph of this font by Martin Beek is posted in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/565028025/] [accessed 13 February 2010]