Stone in Oxney No. 2
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12136STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stone in Oxney
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Hill, Stone in Oxney, Tenterden TN30 7JR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1233 758250
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B2082, 18 km SE of Tenterden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Notes:
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Glynne (1877) reports: "The font is octagonal, but cased in wood." In Muriel (1882): "The font is octagonal and quite plain." Noted in the www.villagemet.co.uk site: "The font stands at the western end of the nave, octagonal in shape, with no ornamentation; it is a picture of elegant simplicity." [Not listed in Newman (1980)] [cf. Index entry for Stone in Oxney No. 1 for a listed object].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 343264 5654058
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: octagonal and flat; modern -- the font may have been totally encased in wood at some point [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 335
- Muriel, E.M. , Revd., "The Church of Stone in Oxney", 14 (1882), Archaeologia Cantiana, 1882, pp. 98; p. 98