Hythe nr. Folkestone

INFORMATION

FontID: 06941HYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A259, 5-6 km SW of Folkestone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: The font at Sandhurst, in the same county
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Decorated period. In Newman (1976) as a baptismal font of the 14th century "decorated with nothing more than tracery patterns", like the font at Sandhurst, in the same county.

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
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980