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view of church exterior - northwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Smallhythe/SmallHytheStJohn2004.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font visible at the west end, south (left) side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Smallhythe/SmallHytheStJohn2004.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Smallhythe/SmallHytheStJohn2004.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19th-century font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2004 by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Kent/Smallhythe/SmallHytheStJohn2004.htm] [accessed 14 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16019HYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Smallhythe Road, Smallhythe, Kent, TN307NG
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2082, 8 km S of Tenterden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Tenterden
Century and Period: , Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of http://www.roughwood.net, for his photographs of church and font
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?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.039595, 0.699372
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 2′ 22.54″ N, 0° 41′ 57.74″ E
UTM: 31U 338712 5656747

REFERENCES

Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-