Riverhead

Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Riverhead/Riverhead-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font visible at the west end, behind the north (right) bank pf pews

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Riverhead/Riverhead-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Riverhead/Riverhead-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 16018RIV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Amherst Hill, Riverhead, Kent, TN13 2BP
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located just N of Sevenoaks
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Date: 1831?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of http://www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Riverhead/Riverhead-St-Mary.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]. The font, in a modernised version of a medieval style, is probably of the same date as the church, 1831. [NB: we have no information of an earlier church on this site]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 302666 5685200

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern