Cliffe / Cliffe-at-Hoo / Cliffe at Hoo / Cliffe nr. Rochester / Clive / Cloveshoo

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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 16066CLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the Hoo peninsula, 5 km up the B2000
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Glynne (1877), who visited the church in 1857, notes: "The font has an octagonal bowl with concave sides, on a buttressed stem; it has a wood cover." Loyd (1877) writes: "The font, which was removed some years since from its accustomed place, has an octagonal bowl, with concave sides, on a buttressed stem. An iron bracket in the western pillar of the south arcade of the nave, from which the font cover was suspended, remains to mark its original position."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Notes: part of the font cover hardware still remains in its original position in the western pillar of the shouth arcade [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Lloyd, Iorwerth Grey, Rev., "The Parish Church of Cliffe at Hoo", XI, 1877, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1877, pp. 145-159; r["References"]