Snargate

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the porch is 18th-century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2005 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Snargate/Snargate-St-Dunstan.htm] [accessed 15 February 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font in the foreground, by the first pillar of the north (left) arcade

view of church interior - nave - looking west

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the stem and base were replaced after 1930 [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12347SNA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Dunstan
Church Patron Saints: St. Dunstan
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2080, 15-16 km S of Ashford (just N of Brookland, of the famous lead font)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1220? [basin only]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Transitional / Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl on stem and base of like form." Torr (1930) notes a baptismal font "probably of the early thirteenth century", square bowl on five supports [NB: these outer colonnettes were not reported in Glynne, who visited the church in 1866]. Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album : "The font has a square bowl and stem, and dated from c.1220. It retains its original lining of lead and has a flat oak lid, probably 16th century." The square basin has plain tapering sides; the square base and lower base appear modern, and could be a replacement of the "five supports" noted in Torr above, or a removal of the four that had been added? The wooden cover is square, flat but of two levels, with a knob handle.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930