Ashford / Asshatisforde / Essheford / Esselesford / Essetesford [Domesday] / Eshetisford

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - 4
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4
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view of church interior - looking east
view of church interior - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 06948ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Tufton St, Ashford TN23 1QG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1233 624064
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A292, SW of the M20, 25 km WNW of Folkestone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Longbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this Ashford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR0142/ashford/] [accessed 27 May 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Glynne (1877) writes: "The font is octagonal, panelled with quatrefoils". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Newman (1980); "Font. Perp[endicular]. On a boldly concaved stem. Quatrefoils on the eight faces, enclosing roses and shields alternately." The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1071114] notes: "A church on the site was probably Saxo-Norman and the existing church was substantially built in the C13 and C14 and the tower, chancel and transepts heightened in the C15. Medieval fittings include misericords to choir stalls, a sculptured stone figure and font. [...] The octagonal stone font is late-C15 with quatrefoil decoration."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.1485,
0.872748
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 8′ 54.6″ N,
0° 52′ 21.89″ E
UTM: 31U 351216 5668490
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; date unknown
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
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980