Tenterden / Heronden

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 6

Scene Description: the central shaft does not appear to have any decoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2011 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2647933] [accessed 18 July 2014]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 12

Scene Description: two per side

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2008 by Oast House Archive [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/890189] [accessed 18 July 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font is discernible on the right side of the image, between two pillars of the south colonnade, by the south entranceway -- Photo caption: "Grade I listed. 14th to 15th Century church. The chancel is Early English. The nave has a wooden ceiling. The tower dates from 1467 and is similar to Ashford and Lydd. There are two blocked windows above the chancel arch. Restored 1864."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 March 2014 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3907637] [accessed 18 July 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2011 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2647933] [accessed 18 July 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12135TEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mildred

Church Patron Saints: St. Mildrith [aka Mildred, Mildþrȳð, Mildryth, Mildthryth]

Church Location: High Street/Church Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6AR

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located in the Ashford district [originally one of the Cinque Ports confederation since 1449]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Tenterden

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: another hexagonal font in this county at Rolvenden

Church Notes: church originally 12thC; enlarged and tower added 1461

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

We found no entry for Tenterden in the Domesday survey. Mace (1902) notes: "The font is of the 14th century type, its position has been shifted several times." Described in Newman (1980): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Hexagonal [...] On a centre shaft and shafts at the angles, which is highly unusual in the C15. Two pointed quatrefoils on each face." The wood cover is modern. [NB: the font has been at the present [March 2014] location at least since May 2011 -- there is an entry in the Canterbury Cathedral Archive [DCb/E/F/Tenterden, St Mildred/16 1949] the heading of which reads: "Replacing of existing font with one recovered from the churchyard", which must refer to the present font and suggest that it had been replaced by a later font and relegated to the churchyard. [NB: we have not been able to find the date of the Victorian renovation yet, but it is quite likely that the old font had been discarded in one of the later renovations and replaved by a more fashionable vessel of the time -- we have no information on the font that was replaced in 1949 [cf. supra]].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.068897, 0.688515

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 8.03″ N, 0° 41′ 18.65″ E

UTM: 31U 338054 5660028

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal, flat and plain; knob handle; modern

REFERENCES

Mace, J. Ellis, Old Tenterden, Tenterden: W. Thompson, High Street, 1902

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