Swanscombe

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06935SWA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the S bank of the Thames, E of the Dartford Crossing, across from Gray and Tilbury.
Additional Comments: damaged font: defaced [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is cased in wood"; a footnote adds: "The wood casing has since been removed, and the font's outer surface now much mutilated, seems to have been carved with the emblems of the four Evangelists." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Newman (1980), however,: "Font. Norman, tub-shaped. Terribly defaced, but one big beast can be made out, enough to show that it was once a fine thing."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped

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. 310
  • Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 46, 561