Fairfield nr. Brookland

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12095FAI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located in Walland Marsh, just WNW of Brookland, in the SE corner of the county
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century / 17th century, Post-Reformation
Noted in Hussey (1852) with reference to Hasted (1797). Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Plain, heptagonal. Possibly Perp[endicular], or possibly of the 1660s." Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Fairfield/FairfieldStThomas2005.htm] [accessed 13 February 2010]: "The font is plain, and a design unique in Kent. The bowl has seven sides, perhaps a reminder of the seven sacrements of the church. It was originally located on the north side of the church, but is now in the centre, underneath the turret." Also notable of this font is the shape of the lower base: it is of a general polygonal shape, but two (?) of its sides removed, or rather, not there, since it appears to be the original shape rather than an alteration. On an octagonal plinth.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: heptagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining

REFERENCES

Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852
Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980