'The Historic Graffiti in Borden Parish Church & Surrounding Area'
Schedule
Wed, 08 Jan, 2025 at 10:30 am
UTC+00:00Location
Borden Village Hall | Sittingbourne, EN
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The villages and towns of Kent possess an array of unique churches and surviving medieval buildings. Surveys undertaken by the author have recorded a fascinating corpus of medieval and historic graffiti (including compass-drawn circles, ‘Marian’ marks, memorials and devotional graffiti) which will be discussed in this illustrated talk.The talk will begin with a study of the church of St Peter & Paul in Borden, then expand the discussion to compare the corpus of graffiti with regional, national and international examples.
The study of medieval graffiti has been in the ascendant recently, with popular books published on the subject. These mainstream publications have helped to disseminate the new interpretative frameworks and ideas which are the culmination of the last thirty years of academic research into medieval inscriptions. The re-evaluation of medieval graffiti has revealed many more subtleties and diverse meanings than hitherto imagined. Graffiti can span the entire medieval period but appears to have a second peak between AD 1550 –1850 during the Early Modern Period in Europe
There are many categories now recognised, including masons’ marks, devotional and memorial inscriptions and a whole range of apotropaic symbols now believed to represent elements of ritual building protection.
N.B. The talk will include a guided tour of the graffiti in St Peter & St Pauls at 12 noon.
Tickets on the door
Non-members £4
Wayne Perkins
BA (Archaeology), Associate Member, Charted Institute for Archaeologists (ACIfA).
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