Upper Hardres / Hardres Magna / Great Hardres

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11502HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B2068, 7-8 km S of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S side of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Noted in Gough (1792) as a "square and plain" baptismal font. No font mentioned in Glynne's entry (1877) for this church. Torr (1930) writes: "Of Norman date, the fonts at Upper Hardres, Westwell, Tilmanstone and Fordwich (without angle shafts) may serve as examples of the arcaded bowl type". In Kelly's Directory of 1934 as a Norman font. Noted in Newman (1976): "Font.Norman. Square bowl, wuth five sunk arches per side, standing on five shafts." 'A brief history' of Upper Hardres in the parish web site [www.stelling-minnis.co.uk/church-peterpaul.htm] informs that "the Norman font remains to this day" and that the font was probably moved to the south side in the 14th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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. 189fn
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Kent, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1934
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930