Bilsington / Bilsuitone
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: a re-carving? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a re-carving? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, south side, behind the south bank of pews
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2005 by Mark Collins [www.roughwood.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12086BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-tooled?] / 19th century, Perpendicular [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Bilsington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Bilsington, Ashford TN25 7JY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1233 720878
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B2067, 9-10 km S of Ashford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Newchurch [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? Re-tooled? -- disappeared font? (the one frrom the Domesday0time church in it)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bilsington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR0434/bilsington/] [accessed 28 June 2025]; it reports a church in it. Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl, but seems to be modern." Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Rustic Perp[endicular]". [NB: there is a converted Augustinian Priory church nearby, but we have no information on any font there]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: mpdern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with carved and inscribed upper surface, and figural finial; inscription on upper rim reads: "SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN [...]"
REFERENCES
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 171