Shadoxhurst

INFORMATION

FontID: 12132SHA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located 6 km from Ashford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Cognate Fonts: Other hexagonal fonts in Kent at Rolvenden, Tenterden

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl on stem." Noted in the Parish web site [www.shadoxhurst.info/Churchmain.html]: "The font [...] is lead lined, hexagonal a shape fairly common in the Midlands but rare in the South East. Others found in Tenterden, Rolvenden and Sandhurst." [cf. Index corresponding entries -- but the font at Sandhurst (Kent) is octagonal] This same source notes that the font cover was "made with wood from the pews".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining