Portsmouth No. 2
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image and permission received (e-mail of 20 February 2019)
Results: 9 records
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)
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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]
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17577POR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Address: High St, Portsmouth PO1 2HH, UK
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off High Street, just NW of the Royal Garrison Church
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Liberty of Portsmouth
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church?)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the modern font in the cathedral
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 633624 5628217
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.790278, -1.104167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 47′ 25″ N, 1° 6′ 15″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.