Brenchley
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 16 May 2008)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2008 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 16 May 2008)
INFORMATION
FontID: 13531BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B2160, 4 km ENE of Pembury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font and cover
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne (1877): "the font is a plain octagon". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides; the underbowl chamfer also plain; raised on a plain octagonal stem, and an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is flat and plain, modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877