St. Margaret's at Cliffe / Saint Margarets-at-Cliffe

INFORMATION

FontID: 05985MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Dover (North), in the South Foreland Heritage Coast
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1663?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Post-Reformation
Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Dated 1663."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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