Hinxhill

INFORMATION

FontID: 06919HIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just E of Ashford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes)
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
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930