Wingham / Wyngeham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15967WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A257, near Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts
Font Notes:
Glynne (1877) reports: "The font is an ugly modern one". Hussey (1896) mentions a visitation to this church by Bishop Peckham ca. 1280 that recommended a number of objects that the parishoners must provide for the church, if they had not already had done so, among which, "a font, with lock and key". Hussey (ibid.) notes also an entry in the parish records of a donation by Sir George Oxenden, of Kent, president of the East India Company; the amount was £500 and was dedicated to church repairs, new monuments, and "a fine marble font". Hussey (ibid.) also notes the burial of William Newton, Vicar of Wingham, who "died in 1744 and was buried at the west end of the south aisle of the church, near the font." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the earlier fonts of this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 375633 5681627

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 110
  • Hussey, Arthur, Chronicles of Wingham: Being a contribution towards the history of the Parish, Canterbury: J. A. Jennings, 1896, p. 55, 98, 152