West Peckham

INFORMATION

FontID: 06889PEC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dunstan
Church Patron Saints: St. Dunstan
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A228, 12 km WSW of Maidstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980
Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930