Waldershare / Walwaresere / Walwareshare / Walworthshire

INFORMATION

FontID: 15945WAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Dover -- the church is in the grounds of Wakdershare Park
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Century and Period: , Medieval
Hasted (1800) notes: "The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a small mean building, consisting of a body and chancel, having a wooden turret at the west end, in which hangs one bell […] The church of Waldershare was antiently appendant to the manor, and continued so, till one of the family of Malmaines gave it to the neighbouring abbey of West Langdon, to which it was appropriated by archbishop Walter Reynolds, in the 16th year of Edward II (fn. 4) In which state it continued till the suppression of that monastery, in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. when it came with the rest of the possessions of it, into the king's hands, whence this appropriation, together with the advowson of the vicarage, was afterwards granted to the archbishop of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it continues at this time." Hasted does not mention a font in it. Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font is a plain octagon." [NB: The church is no longer used and is in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877
Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-