Swingfield / Swinfield / Swynefelde

INFORMATION

FontID: 16040SWI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A260, near Acrise, NNE of Folkstone, WNW of Dover
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Hasted (1799) notes that the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem had a preceptory in Swingfield and that the "The rectory of this church was early appropriated to the hospital of St. John, which continued in the possessions of all the profits of it, till the dissolution of the hospital in the 32d year of king Henry VIII." Hasted does not mention a font. In his 1866 visit to this church, Glynne (1877) noted: "The font is new one, with an octagonal bowl" [NB: the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on its earlier font(s)]

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-