Hadlow / Haslow
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Photograph and permsiion to reproduce received (e-mail of 14 September 2006)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carol Harmond, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond in 2006
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permsiion to reproduce received (e-mail of 14 September 2006)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carol Harmond, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond in 2006
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permsiion to reproduce received (e-mail of 14 September 2006)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12165HAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century (?), Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Hadlow
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church first documented 975; re-built in stone 1018; granted the church to the Knights Hospitallers in 1166; modified since
Church Address: Maidstone Rd, Hadlow, Tonbridge TN11 0DJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1732 850238
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A26, 6-7 km NE of Tonbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Littlefeld [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entrey for Hadlow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ6349/hadlow/] [accessed 29 June 2025]; it reports a church in it. Glynne (1877) notes: "The font is new". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated on alternate sides with a floral(?) in a deeply-set Ogee window, moulded underbowl; raised on a plain octagonal shaft that becomes square at the lower base, with spurs at the angles. Wooden cover, octagonal and flat; contemporary? [NB: the original stone church is believed to have been built ca. 1018, but we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carol Harmond, of www.bastonfamily.co.uk, for the photographs of this modern font.
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.