Hollingbourne
Image copyright © P. E. Blanche & Kent Resources, 2002
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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
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05979HOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Upper Street B2163], Hollingbourne, Kent, ME17 1UN
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B2163, near Maidstone, just N of the M20
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle
Century and Period: 15th - 18th century, Late Medieval
Church Notes: present church originally 14thC, altered 15th, 17th, 19th and 20thC
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.265109,
0.640833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 15′ 54.39″ N,
0° 38′ 27″ E
UTM: 31U 335413 5681951
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
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
