Luddesdown
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06920LUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5-7 km SW of Rochester
Additional Comments: composite font: Norman + Early English + Victorian?
Font Notes:
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Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is First Pointed, the bowl square, charged with a range of round arches, on four shafts without capitals, two of them rather broken, upon a square plinth, attached to a south pier." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Gravesham Borough Council website [http://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/luddesdown.html] [accessed 18 February 2010] notes: "The font is reconstructed from three old originals - it has a Norman pedestal with four 13th century shafts."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
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. 341