Ulcombe

INFORMATION

FontID: 06936ULC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 10-12 km ESE of Maidstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl, chamfered, on a large stem surrounded by four shafts. The cover bears the date 1759, and is drawn up by a pulley with ornamental iron-work." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1759
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes, pulley [cf. FontNotes]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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