Wilmington nr. Dartford
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12145WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Peter
Church Address: B258, Wilmington, Kent DA2 7DY, UK
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: A suburb of Dartford, 2 km from its centre, in the direction of Sevenoaks; on the B256 [aka Church Hill]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Font Notes:
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Noted in Newman (1980): "Font. An attempt to square the circle. Too plain to be datable." The church itself, formerly a chapel of ease to Sutton-at-Hone, goes back to pre-Conquest times, greatly a 19th-century restoration now.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 304506 5701497
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Newman, John, West Kent and the Weald, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980, p. 610