Sundridge / Sondresse
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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BU02: human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12134SUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sundridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Sundridge, Sevenoaks TN14 6EA, United Kingdom
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A25, NW of Sevenoaks
Historical Region: Hundred of Codsheath [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Sundridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4854/sundridge/] [accessed 28 June 2025]l t reports a church in it. Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has an octagonal bowl on a stem, with heads under the bowl." Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal and plain, except for eight carved corbel heads." Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Sundridge/Sundridge-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]. The font consists of a plain octagonal basin with a moulded underbowl on the lower level of which are eight human (?) heads, raised on a plain octagonal stem and a moulded lower base of like shape; on a small octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle, modern. [NB: a church may have existed on this site since 862 AD [cf. supra], but we have no information on the earlier fonts]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 347
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 553