St. Mary-in-the-Marsh
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/StMaryInTheMarsh/StMaryInTheMarsh2005.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/StMaryInTheMarsh/StMaryInTheMarsh2005.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/StMaryInTheMarsh/StMaryInTheMarsh2005.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/StMaryInTheMarsh/StMaryInTheMarsh2005.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 16021MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the Romney Marsh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/StMaryInTheMarsh/StMaryInTheMarsh2005.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]: "The font is octagonal on a plain column and has a wooden lid." Both basin and stem are octagonal and plain; raised on a quadrangular plinth of multiple stones and modern appearance. The octagonal pyramidal cover is modern as well. [NB: part of the tower is Norman, but we have no information of an earlier font in this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]