Thanington / Taneton / Taningtune / Taninton / Tanyntone / Tenitune / Thannnyngton

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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the modern basin of the font in the foreground, right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 March 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2912776] [accessed 29 August 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 15987THA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Ashford Road, Thanington, Kent, CT1 3XZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A28, 2 km SW from Canterbury town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Westgate -- Hundred of Stursete [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Thanington in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TR1356/thanington/] [accessed 29 August 2017]; it mentions a church in it. Glynne (1877) writes: "The font is octagonal." The Thanington Parish Council website [http://www.thanington-pc.gov.uk/history/history1.html] [accessed 10 February 2010] notes: "The church was restored in 1829 by the local patron John Bell who installed a new font […] The font in the nave near the door is of unusual design, the base being 13th. Century or earlier. The rest is 19th. Century restoration." This same source illustrates a plan of the church interior showing the font at the W end of the nave, just west of the south door.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.270191, 1.05469
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 16′ 12.69″ N, 1° 3′ 16.88″ E
UTM: 31U 364298 5681669
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877