Kenardington / Kenarton / Kennardington
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Results: 3 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net[
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05423KEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km WSW of Ashford, about 35 km ENE of Hastings
Additional Comments: disappeared font
Font Notes:
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Hasted (1798) notes: "The font in this church is remarkably mean, being composed of brick and tile only." Writing of his 1859 visit to this church, Glynne (1877) refers to the font simply as "is of brick." Cox & Harvey (1907) and Bond (1908) refere to Glynne, and do not add any further information on it. The Kent Archaeological Society entry for this church shows a stone font consisting of a small hemispherical basin raised on a hexagonal (?) pedestal base; not a medieval font. The plain round cover is also modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the medieval font, or of the fonts mentioned in Hasted and Glynne]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and stone font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: brick
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 76
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 164
- Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-, vol. 7: 244-249 / [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63414] [accessed 11 February 2010]