Rusthall

INFORMATION

FontID: 12127RUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just W of Tunbridge Wells
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1850?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Cognate Fonts: The original, of which this is a copy of, is in the Church of St. Mary, in Weston [near Saplding], Lincs.; another copy of the Weston font found in Garsington, Oxfordshire
Font Notes:
Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. A copy of the E[arly] E[nglish] font at Weston, Lincolnshire."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

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