Farnborough nr. Orpington / Farborough

No entry found for this Farnborough in the Domesday survey. Glynne (1877) writes: "The font is a good one, apparently of Curvilinear period; its form octagonal, and three faces are enriched with varied tracery of excellent character" [NB: the Curvilinear period roughly matches the Decorated period]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The entry for this church in Historic England [List entry Number: 1064339] reports: "Late C14 font, polygonal with quatrefoils and rosettes on the bowl and tracery panelling on the C19 stem. It has traces of original colour. " The parish web site [www.farnborough-kent-parish.org.uk/parish_building.html] [accessed 30 July 2018] notes: "The font is the finest surviving internal feature of the church and dates from the latter half of the 14th century. The octagonal bowl, which has been badly cracked in time past, has eight different geometric panels. Five are made up of quatrefoils and abstract flower panels, and three chiefly contain what appear to be stylized human figures. The font was originally lime-washed and coloured, traces of which remain. The stem on which the bowl stands is of the Victorian period." [NB: the basin appears to have been broken into several pieces but restored back together, although the cracks are easily discernible now].