Otford

INFORMATION

FontID: 12123OTF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
No font mentioned in Glynne (1877). The Otford Society Newsletter [www.otford.info/otfordsociety/newsletter_2004oct.pdf] for October 2004 notes that "In the Kent County archives there is a manuscript description of the church in 1840 by a surveyor, Mr. W.P. Griffith [...] The font in 1840 was wooden, with a pyramidal cover, so the present stone font and its ornate Jacobean (seventeenth-century) cover must have come later." Newman (1980) mentions the only cover: "Early C17, the finial removed." [NB: we have no information on the wooden font, but it obvious that the stone font now in this church must be 19th-century at the earliest, and therefore it is not listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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