Lympne

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09965LYM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B2067, 15 km W of Folkstone
Additional Comments: recycled font / buried font / altered font: polish up; columns of base replaced
Font Notes:
In his 1862 visit to this church Glynne (1877) reported a new font in this church. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Norman. Square bowl, much polished up, on modern shafts." Listed in Stocker (1997) as a "deep burial" instance in his listing of "font bowls reportedly discovered under church floors and set beneath successors."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 241
  • Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 393
  • Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 24