Cooling / Colinge / Colinges

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12088COO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James (redundant)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: 30 Main Rd, Cooling, Rochester ME3 8DQ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of the A2 / M2, about 10 km N of Chatham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Shamwell [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
Torr (1930) suggests a date ca. 1200 for this font, "unless the ornament was added later to a Norman bowl". Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. C13. Of the Purbeck type. The square bowl on five circular shafts. Five trefoiled arches sunk slightly into each side. The E face with a cross in the centre, on a stepped base and with two discs above and below each arm." The whole is raised on a two-step plinth. A recent [2003] photograph of this font can be seen in the Kent Reosurces web site [www.digiserve.com/peter/cooling-sj2_e.htm]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 239
  • Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930