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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter E. Blanche, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Peter E. Blanche in Kent Resources [www.digiserve.com/peter/noning-sm1.htm]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12067NON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Nonington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, just W of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [earlier St. Thomas?]
Church Address: Pinners Ln, Nonington, Dover CT15 4LH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1304 812296
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A2, W of the A256, halfway between Canterbury (NW) and Dover (SE)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl of doubtful character". Noted in Newman (1976): Font. Dated 1662. Still medieval in shape, but quite simple." The basin has octagonal shallow sides, one of which has "1662" carved on it, and a round underbowl, raised on a cylindrical stem, and a round-to-octagonal lower base; the stem has a roll moulding at each end. Rather than 'medieval', as Newman claims, it is just awkward. A recent [2001] picture of this font can be found at Kent Resources [www.digiserve.com/peter/noning-sm1.htm]. The Parish' own history page [www.nonington.com] notes, this font "doubtless took the place of an earlier font of which nothing is known."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on one of the basin sides
Inscription Text: "1662"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- "The church and charity lands of Nonington [...] a church visitation of 1294", XXXII (1917), Archaeologia Cantiana, 1917, pp. 169; p. 169
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 188
- Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 401