St. Paul's Cray No. 2

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12128PAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paulinus, St. Paul's Cray [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paulinus of York
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the Borough of Bromley, near Orpington
Historical Region: formerly Kent
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Octagonal. Elementary panelling of the bowl, a sunk panel and two sunk hyphens. More likely to be C17 than C15." [cf. Index entry for St. Paul's Cray No. 1 for another font listed in this church] [NB: the original church may have been Anglo-Saxon; we have no current information on the font(s) of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 505