#FontsOnFriday A baptismal font straight from the mid-1960s catalogue of wooden furnishings - here is the one used by St. Mark's, Ramsgate. English Churches

@NonLgeProgs Non League Crowds Cray Wanderers v Concord Rangers - 11/2/2024

@NonLgeProgs Non League Crowds Burgess Hill v Horndean - 27/1/2024

@NonLgeProgs Non League Crowds Programme for Walton & Hersham v Winchester City- 20/1/24

# #FontsOnFriday English Churches Two mid-19th century fonts of Ashburton marble, made together and presented to two rural churches high on the Kent Downs -St. Margaret's, Hucking; and St. James' , Bicknor.

#mementomoriMonday Against the east wall of St. Augustine's, Snave, Kent, is a memorial to a dog called Pat, who died aged 10 in 1934.

I wonder if Pat was a local farmer's sheepdog given Snave's location on the Romney Marsh surrounded by fields of sheep.
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#MementoMoriMonday English Churches Here is the 16th century memorial to Sir Roger Manwood at St. Stephen's, Hackington, Canterbury.
Including a life size replica of his skeleton which he himself had commissioned...

@NonLgeProgs Non League Crowds Excellent programme from Grays Athletic v Heybridge Swifts - 13/1/2024

#SteepleSaturday English Churches A cheat post today- a steeple that was never built, at St. Luke's, Ramsgate, built 1875.
The height would have been double that of the nave roof.
It would have been red brick encased in ragstone and probably would not have survived anyway!

@NonLgeProgs Non League Crowds Printed programme for AFC Whyteleafe v Croydon in the SCEFL Div.1 Cup - 6/1/2024

#StainedGlass English Churches I always like the floral designs and colour patterns typically found on doors of non-conformist churches, here are a set of gallery swing-doors from the Ebenezer Congregational Church (now Emmaus URC), Chatham, Kent.

#AdoorableThursday Some mid-Victorian polychrome brickwork of the west porch at St. Catherine's, Manston, Kent, built in 1873-4. English Churches

#SteepleSaturday English Churches An early Victorian church built in 1842 - the year before Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
The interior has a lovely hammerbeam roof structure. Architect John Whichcord in partnership with an otherwise unknown associate listed as Walker.

#FontsOnFriday English Churches The font at St. Mary's Platt, Kent, dates from 1842.

#SteepleSaturday The 132ft 15th century tower at All Saints, Lydd, Kent.
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#FontsOnFriday English Churches 12th century lead lined Norman font at St. Mary Magdalene, Gillingham, Kent, complete with a 17th century cover.

#FontsOnFriday The 14th century font at Old Romney, Kent, complete with little gargoyled figures at the tops of the supporting columns. English Churches