High Halstow

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12106HAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just N of Hoo
Historical Region: Hundred of Hoo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
Described in Torr (1930) as a baptismal font of ca. 1200. Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Plain square bowl on corner shafts linked to the central stem. By the shaft-mouldings early C13 rather than C12."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

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