Stanford nr. Folkestone

Earliest ref. to church: In Domesday Monachorium it pertains to Lyminge [cf. KAS entry below]. Hasted (1797-1801), writing about the church at nearby Westhanger, notes: "The font, which was in this church, was removed to the church of Stanford, where it now remains." In Newman (1976): "Font. Peculiar, and hard to date, with its miscalculated Perp[endicular] mouldings and a ring of leaves and flowers and looking as if they had squeezed through a cake-icer. Hasted [cf. supra] mentions a font, brought from the demolished church of Westenhanger. But this one looks C19. Might it however be of the 1660s?" The Kent Archaeological Society entry for this church [www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/STN.htm] [accessed 14 October 2020] notes: "The font from St Mary's, Westenhanger was apparently brought here after the Reformation, when the latter church became disused".