Boxley

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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06143BOX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and All Saints
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km N of Maidstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
Glynne (1877) reports two visits to this church, in 1839 and 1866: "The font has an octagonal bowl, on a buttressed stem". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the base of an early baptismal font "with concave sides and octagonal in plan".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928