Catthorpe / Torp

ADD *** https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7373429 *** There is an entry for Catthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP5578/catthorpe/] [accessed 31 January 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font is noted and illustrated in Upcottt (1818). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Circular, C13, with odd sparse small leaf forms." The entry foor this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP5520578166] notes: "Parish Church. Early C14, C15, restored 1886 […] C13 font with circular bowl on 4 short shafts. Bowl has decoration of widely spaced head and leaf forms and band around rim." Resembling somewhat the Cornish fonts at Roche and Bodmin, the font at Catthorpe is more crudely done and lacks the originality of the formers' square upper part from whose corners stem the outer supporting columns which, with the central cylinder, make up the base. The upper rim of this font is badly worn but shows carving all around; the sides of the cauldron-like basin have several high-relief large leaves as ornament; half way down the underbowl on one side a rather crude Agnus Dei with the Cross. The lower base is round. The whole appears to have been carved from a single block of stone.