Allington / Elentun

Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font is octagonal and simple." John E. Vigar's Kent Churches website [http://www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Allington] [accessed 18 February 2010] notes: "Long since converted to a desirable residence, St Laurence's church is a mainly nineteenth century rebuild of a venerable church on the main approach road to Allington Castle. For much of its history a chapelry, rather than parish church, it must have witnessed many notable visitors, and being a remote building enjoyed its fair share of scandals - most notably in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a venue for illegal marriages, conducted without the reading of banns. " [NB: we have no current information on the whereabouts of the old font from St. Lawrence's; this church closed down in the late 1960s, and some of its furnishings were moved to the new church -- the new church of St. Nicholas is modern and has a modern octagonal moulded font]