Bilsington

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil
BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 12086BIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located S of Ashford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 15th century [re-tooled?] / 19th century, Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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]
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