Small Hythe / Smallhyth / Smallhythe / Smallit

Hasted (1798) writes: "At this place [a chapel] was built, and was soon afterwards licensed by faculty from archbishop Warham, anno 1509, on the petition of the inhabitants, on account of the distance from their parish church of Tenterden, the badness of the roads, and the dangers they underwent from the waters being out in their way thither; and was dedicated to St. John Baptist." The present font here is illustrated in the Roughwoof British Churches Album [www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Smallhythe/SmallHytheStJohn2004.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010] [NB: the present brick Dutch-style church was built in 1516; the earlier church was burnt in a fire in 1514]. There is an entry in the Canterbury Cathedral Archives [DCb/E/F/Smallhythe, St John the Baptist/5 1951] that reads: "The removal of the existing font and the erection of an ancient stone font." [was this the medieval font? if so, where did it end up?]