West Hougham? / Hougham? / Church Hougham?

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12479HOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2011, 6-7 km WSW of Dover
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Glynne (1877) mentions a modern font at Hougham St. Lawrence's. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) with a group of Norman-period fonts on which "the arcading is rather rudely represented by a succession of shallow sunk panels with semicircular heads [...] the only adornment" of the basin. [NB: not clear whether there are two churches: one in West Hougham and another in Church Hougham, with two fonts]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928