Portsmouth No. 2

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image and permission received (e-mail of 20 February 2019)

Results: 9 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/978097] [accessed 12 August 2011]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/978097] [accessed 12 August 2011]

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view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lewis Hulbert, 2014

Image Source: digital image [a panorama consisting of Hugin frames] taken 12 August 2014 by Lewis Hulbert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portsmouth_Cathedral_2014.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: view taken from the east end of the nave, with the chancel ahead

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Diliff [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portsmouth_Cathedral_Chancel,_Portsmouth,_Hampshire,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Diliff [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portsmouth_Cathedral_Nave,_Portsmouth,_Hampshire,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: the Perpendicular font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/978097] [accessed 12 August 2011]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font of 1990

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Diliff [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portsmouth_Cathedral_Chancel,_Portsmouth,_Hampshire,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font of 1990

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 20 February 2019)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font of 1990

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 20 February 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 17577POR
Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Location: High St, Portsmouth PO1 2HH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off High Street, just NW of the Royal Garrison Church
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Liberty of Portsmouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the modern font in the cathedral
No entry found for Portsmouth in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The parish church of St. Thomas of Canterbury [...] was also a possession of Southwick Priory, to which it had been appropriated before 1291 [...] The font, at the west end of the south aisle, is of the fifteenth century, with a panelled octagonal bowl, ornamented with blank shields in the panels and on the chamfered lower edge of the bowl, the shaft and moulded base being also octagonal." A new stone font was added in 1990 but the Perpendicular font has been retained inside the church. [NB: the fabric may go as far back as the end of the 12th century, but we have no information on the earlier font here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.790278, -1.104167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 25″ N, 1° 6′ 15″ W
UTM: 30U 633624 5628217

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.