Wingham / Wyngeham

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]