Cobham (Kent)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06938COB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Gravesend, W of Rochester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Decorated
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
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; r["References"]
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980