Lower Hardres / Hardes / Nether Hardres

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12056HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Lower Hardres
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: School Ln, Lower Hardres, Canterbury CT4 5NS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1227 206272
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A2, 4 km S of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Bridge [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There are two entries for [Lower and Upper] Hardres [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/lower-and-upper-hardres/] [accessed 28 June 2025], each of which reports a church in it. 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-, [p. & vol. unknown]
  • Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 371