Lower Hardres / Nether Hardres

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

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12056HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Reported in Halsted (1797): "the font is very antient, of Bethersden marble" [quoted in Carlton (1997) [www.clt.astate.edu/rcarlton/]]. Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. A genuine C13 piece. Circular bowl on five shafts. The capitals of the angle shafts penetrate up into the bowl. From them spring blank pointed trefoils, and colonnettes with their own capitals."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Bethersden marble
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976