Hinxhill

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06919HIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of Ashford
Font Notes:
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl on a central cylindrical stem and four detached legs, on a square plinth." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Torr (1930) notes: "such examples as Postling and Hinxhill have so little certain evidence upon them that it is difficult to be sure whether they are Norman or Early English, though the latter is in both cases, I think, more probable."

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. 160
  • Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930