Goodnestone / Goodnestone-next-Wingham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12053GOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Cross, Goodnestone
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: The St, Goodnestone, Canterbury CT3 1PL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1304 812296
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B2046, 4 km S of Wingham, 12-13 km ESE of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the original font of the old church
Font Notes:
Noted in Newman (1976): "Font [...] presumably Hussey's" [i.e., reference to the architect Richard Charles Hussey (1802-1887), who may have been responsible for the design of the new font, though Newman (ibid.) gives 'rather, Rickman & Hussey' as responsible for the rebuilding project of Holy Cross [the architectural company formed by Hussey and Thomas Rickman (1776-1841) -- source: Royal Institute of British Architects [www.riba.org]]. [We have no information on the original font of this church]. [NB: the other 'Goodnestone' church in Kent, St. Bartholomew's, located 5 km E of Faversham, is a building of early-Norman times but no font of that time has survived in it]

REFERENCES

  • Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 321