West Peckham
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06889PEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Dunstan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Dunstan
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A228, 12 km WSW of Maidstone
Font Notes:
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Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl on cylindrical stem surrounded by four legs without capitals on square plinth." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Torr (1930) writes: "Of Norman date, the fonts at [...] Higham, West Peckham and Wouldham [...] may serve as examples of the [...] plain type". Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. C12 or C13. Plain square bowl on five shafts."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 204
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 209
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 606
- Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930