Brabourne
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06880BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Blessed Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the M20, 7-8 km E of Ashford (dir. Folkestone)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Canterbury St. Martins'
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 204) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Like the batismal font at Canterbury St. Martin's, the Brabourne font is built of small blocks of stone, not a common occurance in raised medieval baptismal fonts. [Image of this font in the Kent Archaeological Society's web site [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/VisRec/B/BRB/13.htm]]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (round)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907