Walmer

INFORMATION

FontID: 12077WAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [Old Church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NE of Dover
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1664
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Post-Reformation
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a plain and small octagonal bowl." Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Dated 1664. Quite plain." [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the Norman period, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976