Hartley in Sevenoaks

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12100HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Purbeck marble base and eight small shafts. Encircled quatrefoils on the eight faces of the bowl. A marriage of the C13 and the C15, it seems." The web site of the Parish Church [www.fawkhamandhartley.org.uk], however, notes that the font font was made between 1350 and 1400, and that it was moved in 1974 to the current location in a recess of the south wall, just west of the chancel [NB: presumably the font would have been originally nearer the south door].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [lower base only]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980