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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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.