Lenham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06944LEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the M20, about 10 km ESE of Maidstone
Font Notes:
Noted in Hussey (1852): "The font is Dec[orated] and good." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. In Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular] panelled stem."

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
  • Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852, [no. 193]
  • Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 377