Lenham

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LB01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06944LEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just N of the M20, about 10 km ESE of Maidstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
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
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
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980