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
Associated place
Keston
Keston Mark
Bromley
Greater London
Kent
England
United Kingdom
Europe
Keston Mark
Bromley
Greater London
Kent
England
United Kingdom
Europe
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.