Harbledown No. 1 / Harbledon / Herbaldoune / Herbaldowne

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11491HAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels

Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located just W of Canterbury

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted somewhat vaguely in Gough (1792): "That at Harbledon is a kind of cup on (I think) four pillars, like that at Hempsted in Gloucestershire." [cf. Index entry for the Norman font at Hempsted, Gloucs., and an entry for the later font at the Hospital of St. Nicholas, also in Harbledown]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 186