Teynham / Taeneham / Taenham / Teneham Monachorum / Tenham / Therham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15991TEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A2, 5 km W of Faversham [the church is located 2 km NE of the village]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Font Notes:
Glynne (1877) notes: "The font has an octagonal bowl on cylindrical stem". Holton [s.d.] notes: "St Mary’s, Teynham, has long been known as a church of early foundation, being recorded as one of Kent’s pre-Conquest ‘minster’ churches. Although the present building survives as a predominantly 13th to 15th-century structure, recent archaeological investigations have brought to light the existence of fabric much earlier in date". Holton's plan of this church shows the font at the southwest corner of the nave [source: http://www.hrgs.co.uk/stmarys_teynham.htm#plan1 [accessed 10 February 2010]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 178