Lamberhurst
Image copyright © Lee-Anne Baker, 2021
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Lamberhurst. 14th and 15th Century in Decorated and Perpendicular style. Unusually the chancel is split in half by arches, and one half is used as a separate chapel. 15th Century tower with shingled spire."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 18 August 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2559220] [accessed 9 February 2024]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary. Lamberhurst from South East"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 December 2012 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamberhurst,_St_Mary.JPG.JPG] [accessed 9 February 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St Mary's church, Lamberhurst. Showing nave and south aisle. The chancel is very long."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 January 2014 by Julian P Guffogg [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3817083] [accessed 9 February 2024]
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view of font
Scene Description: much altered and restored font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lee-Anne Baker, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 June 2021 by Lee-Anne Baker, in Brittish Listed Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101084519-church-of-st-mary-lamberhurst/photos/265742] [accessed 9 February 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Lamberhurst. south aisle" -- the font is partially visible in the bottom-right corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 26 December 2012 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Lamberhurst,_south_aisle.JPG] [accessed 9 February 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
INFORMATION
FontID: 12139LAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Ln, Lamberhurst, Tunbridge Wells TN3 8DU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1892 890688
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1162, W of the A2, about 10 km ESE of Tunbridge Wells
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Lamberhurst in the Domesday survey. Glynne (877) reports a plain octagonal font in his [1829?] visit to this church. Listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ6781936707]: "Parish church. Chancel C12, extended C13, nave C14 and C15 tower, restored c.1870 by Ewan Christian", without a mention of the font. Noted in the Lamberhurst Village site [www.lamberhurstvillage.co.uk]: "The font was relocated from the Chapel of St. Katherine [the latter to the west of the chancel], possibly in 1964. It is plain octagon embellished and given a new base, which is unfinished, in 19th century by the [then] Vicar, the Rev. Robert Hawkins. The lid is a recent gift from a parishioner and probably Victorian and from a redundant Church." [NB: this font not entered in Newman (1980)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.10386, 0.40132
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 6′ 13.9″ N, 0° 24′ 4.75″ E
UTM: 31U 318072 5664587
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Victorian?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877