Hucking No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 05415HUC
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A249, about 6 km ENE of Maidstone
Font Location in Church: Close to the W side of the western piers?
Century and Period: Medieval
Cognate Fonts: other such stoups at Tonge and Sturry -- a 19th-century font similar to Hucking's at Bicknor, all the above in Kent
Font Notes:
Mentioned in Bond (1908) as one of several stoups (?) in Kent "close to the western side of one of the western piers; and just above the rim of the font, a deep, spherical triangle, or other shape is worked in the pier at Tonge, Hucking and Sturry." There is no mention of this stoup in Newman (1976), who, nevertheless, notes the replacement 19th-century font: "Given in 1867. Pink and grey marble, a pair to the font at Bicknor." [cf. Index entry for Hucking No. 1 for a baptismal font reported by Glynne (1877)]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976