Biddenden / Biddenen

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06916BID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the A262 and the A274, 30-35 km N of Hastings
Additional Comments: restored font: not a successful job [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is octagon, with pointed arches, slightly sunk in the sides, on a stem of eight small columns, the latter recently renewed, badly." Described in Glynne (1877). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Kent Churches web site informs that "the font, sedilia and piscina are all designed to show off the local 'Bethersden Marble, the only local stone that can take a polish". In Newman (1980): "Font. C13. Octagonal bowl of local marble with two sunk pointed arches on each face. The shafts of the base new."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Bethersden marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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. 222
  • Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, p. 32
  • Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 168