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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

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 182mm
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.