West Farleigh
Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the northeast corner of the nave, just west of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/WestFarleigh/West-Farleigh-All-Saints.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/WestFarleigh/West-Farleigh-All-Saints.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west - chancel arch
Scene Description: the font hidden from view on the other side of the chancel arch, north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/WestFarleigh/West-Farleigh-All-Saints.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo Paul, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Photo Paul, 21 March 2008, in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls_fotos/2349157115/] [accessed 25 May 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church interior - nave - looking east - chancel arch
Scene Description: with the font and cover visible here in the northeast corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo Paul, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Photo Paul, 21 March 2008, in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls_fotos/2349157115/] [accessed 25 May 2008]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12144FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, West Farleigh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N side of the nave, just W of the chancel arch [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Ln, Maidstone ME15 0PD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1622 747570
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located offn the B2010, just W of East Farleigh, 5 km W of Maidstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Additional Comments: moved font?
Font Notes:
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No font mentioned in Glynne (1877). Newman (1980) notes only the font cover: "Perp[endicular], of wood, just ogee in profile and with crockets up the ribs and an octagonal finial." The West Farleigh site [www.westfarleigh.org.uk] informs that the present font was replaced between 1300 and 1400. Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/WestFarleigh/West-Farleigh-All-Saints.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]. The font is octagonal, with plain sides curving at the plain underbowl, on an octagonal stem dcorated only with two thin mouldings; the lower base is splayed; also octagonal. The wooden cover is a medium-height dome with crocketed arrises and floral (?) finial. The font is now located in the northeast corner of the nave, just west of the chancel arch, probably not its original position.
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: Perpendicular? / 15th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FonNotes] […or is it Victorian?]
REFERENCES
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 598