Tenterden / Heronden

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of existing font with one recovered from the churchyard", which must refer to the present font and suggest that it had been replaced by a later font and relegated to the churchyard.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]].