Cobham (Kent)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06938COB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Gravesend, W of Rochester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted in Gough (1792): "octagon, on four round painted pillars, and an octagon shaft." Glynne's (1877) description varies on the base: "upon four legs, with central cylindrical shaft, the whole on an octagonal plinth." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. C13. Octagonal bowl on shafts."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 319161 5696380
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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. 337
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 192
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 226