Broomfield / Broomfield nr. Maidstone / Brunfelle
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2012 by Ian Capper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3008875] [accessed 3 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21653BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Lower Broomfield Road, Broomfield, Maidstone ME171PT, UK -- Tel.: (01622) 842916 - verger Derek Hadlow tel 021622 861955
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A20, 10 km SE of Maidstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Union of Hollingbourn, Hundred of Eyhorne
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: original church probably 12thC; restored late-19thC
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Broomfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ8452/broomfield/] [accessed 3 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: TQ8385552452] gives the date of the church as "Late C11 or C12, and C15, restored 1879 by G.M. Hill", but mentions no font in it. The entry for this church in John E. Vigar's Kent Churches [www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Broomfield] [accessed 3 April 2018] reports a Victorian font in this church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.242, 0.6347
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 14' 31" N, 0° 38' 4" E