Postling

INFORMATION

FontID: 12348POS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Radegund
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Radegund
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B2068, 12 km WNW of Folkestone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Font Notes:
Torr (1930) notes: "such examples as Postling and Hinxhill have so little certain evidence upon them that it is difficult to be sure whether they are Norman or Early English, though the latter is in both cases, I think, more probable."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Torr, V.J., "Aldington font", 42 (1930), 223-224, Archaeologia Cantiana, 1930