Folkestone

Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928: 36) as an early baptismal font "with concave sides and octagonal in plan"; later on in the same source (ibid., p. 40) the font is described as "standing "unused in the churchyard"; still later (ibid., p. 49), Tyrrel-Green refers to "the mutilated thirteenth-century font which now [i.e., 1928] stands outside the west door of Folkestone parish church, which has a curious projection at the side with a small hollow above in the rim of the bowl", one of a small group of English fonts "which have a smaller and subsidiary bowl" [cf. entry for Youlgreave for another example in this Index] [NB: it is not clear whether or not all three references are to the same object]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; bowl with a heavily moulded underpart and faces decorated with alternating rosettes and shields; stem and base plain."