Wootton nr. Canterbury

INFORMATION

FontID: 16009WOO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located between the A2 and the A260 (Caterbury Rd), between Canterbury and Dover
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century / 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: Noted in the Domesday Monachorum as subordinate to the church of Lympne and probably of Anglo-Saxon foundation, but the present church chiefly 13th-century
Glynne (1877) reports a modern font in this church in 1873. [NB: the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the medieval font]

REFERENCES

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