Hucking No. 1

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15985HUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Cognate Fonts: other pier-mounted fonts in Kent at Wormshill, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A249, about 6 km ENE of Maidstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Additional Comments: pier-mounted font -- like Wormshill's (also in Kent) but the basin cylindrical
Font Notes:
Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a cylindrical bowl banded at the top, the lower part being attached to a pier." This entry is footnoted: "Replaced by a new font of red marble". Newman (1976) notes a replacement 19th-century font: "Given in 1867. Pink and grey marble, a pair to the font at Bicknor", which does not match Glynne's above description]. Glynne (ibid.) adds: "In the porch is a small benatura" [i.e., holy-water stoup]. [cf. Index entry for Hucking No. 2 for another stoup in the nave] [we have no information on the whereabouts of the old font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 167 and fn
  • Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 354