Postling / Postinges

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12348POS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Radegund, Postling
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Radegund
Church Address: The St, Hythe CT21 4EX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7847 351654
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B2068, 12 km WNW of Folkestone
Historical Region: Hundred of Heane [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? (the one(s) from the two Domesday-time churches)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Postling [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR1439/postling/] [accessed 30 June 2025]; it reports two churches in it. 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." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TR1460239032] notes: "Parish church. Late C11 or C12, C13 and C19. Restored 1896-7 [...] Font with deep rectangular tapering stone bowl on five shafts with bell bases." The font and its cover are illustrated in a 14 September 2010 digital photograph by John Salmon in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_%26_St_Radegund,_Postling,_Kent_-_Font_(geograph_2069602).jpg [accessed 30 June 2025]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

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