Hollingbourne
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view of church exterior - lych-gate and northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Kelly, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3222619] [accessed 13 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Webster, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2014 by Robin Webster [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3842239] [accessed 13 July 2017]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P. E. Blanche & Kent Resources, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph by P. E. Blanche in [www.digiserve.com/peter/hollingbourne-as1.htm
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05979HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 18th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: present church originally 14thC, altered 15th, 17th, 19th and 20thC
Church Address: Upper Street B2163], Hollingbourne, Kent, ME17 1UN
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B2163, near Maidstone, just N of the M20
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font is octagonal, with a fine wood cover". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Newman (1976) mentions only the cover: "Early C16. Wood. The usual ogee shape, with crockets up the ribs, and a finial of branch tracery." The Kent Resources web site [ww.digiserve.com/peter/hollingbourne-as1.htm] has a recent [2002] photograph of the font and cover, and points out that the original mechanism for raising the cover remains.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 335413 5681951
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.265109, 0.640833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 15′ 54.39″ N, 0° 38′ 27″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th century
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 83
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 350
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31