Goodnestone / Goodnestone-next-Wingham
INFORMATION
FontID: 12053GOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 4 km S of Wingham
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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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