Tilmanstone / Tilemanestone

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12076TIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Tilmanstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Upper St, Tilmanstone, Deal CT14 0JQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1304 611323
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A256, 12-13 km N of Dover
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Eastry [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) with a group of Norman-period fonts on which "the arcading is rather rudely represented by a succession of shallow sunk panels with semicircular heads [...] the only adornment" of the basin. Torr (1930) writes: "Of Norman date, the fonts at Upper Hardres, Westwell, Tilmanstone and Fordwich (without angle shafts) may serve as examples of the arcaded bowl type". Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Norman. The usual arcaded square bowl, of local marble, on five shafts."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble? / limestone?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 474
  • Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 75