Eynsford / Eynesford

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06951EYN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [moved: cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A225, just SE of Swanley
Font Notes:
Noted in Hussey (1852), Cox & Harvey (1907) and Newman (1980) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Glynne (1877): "The font is an octagon, each face charged alternately with shields and roses, the shields bearing different devices." [NB: C&H and Glynne have "Eynesford"]. Noted and illustrated in the Parish website [http://www.efl-churches.org/hist_stmart.htm] [accessed 17 February 2010]: "The font is 15th Century and of Kentish ragstone. It was originally by the door where a font is traditionally placed but was moved to make space for an organ console in 1967. On the west face are the cross and crown of thorns, on the south face a tau cross representing baptism. On the east face is the pall from the arms of Canterbury. The other faces are carved with single roses."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Kentish ragstone)
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
  • Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 305
  • 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, p. 66 [no. 118]
  • Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 280