Drawings Device on communion table, Keston, Greater London
Object number
LDSAL2020.28.30
Artist/Designer/Maker
Fairholt, Frederick William - Artist
Production date
1855
Material
paper
pen
ink
pen
ink
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 182mm
Width: 114mm
Width: 114mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
On the Communion table Keston Church Kent
Inscription content
Keston, Kent. Devic on Communion Table. Arch. XXXVI, 126-8.
References
Reference (free text)
George R Corner, 'An Account of Excavations on the Site of Roman Buildings at Keston, Near Bromley, Kent', Archaeologia 36 (1855): 120-8.
Illustration (Engraving), p. 128.
The author suggests that the cross is a reproduction of an earlier cross set up in Keston on the establishment of Christianity. 'The device...seems to indicate that the clergy of that day [the 17th century] sought to divert the thoughts of the people from a superstitious notion about the Keston Mark, to the Christian mark of the Cross.' There is a discussion of the derivation and meaning of the word 'Mark' as it occurs in the Anglo-Saxon charter.