Yalding / Ealding

INFORMATION

FontID: 16024YAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B2010, SSW of West Farleigh, SW of Maidstone
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
Noted in Domesday Book as a chapel. Hasted (1798) notes that the first vicar of Yalding was "Laurence, presented in 1184", but does not mention a font in this church. Glynne (1877) notes: "The font is a plain octagon, on a pedestal of like form". Glynne (ibid.) mentions features of several periods in the church (Early English, Curvilinear, Rectilinear); the font is unlikely to be the original 12th-century vessel, but rather date from on of the later medieval periods [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]

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