Edworth

Noted in Lysons (1806-1833): "Edworth font is enriched with quatrefoils, roses, and shields". Gorham (1824) notes: "The font is octagonal, and elegant. Its eight faces contain quatrefoils and shields, on one of which is a cross, on another, the instruments of crucifixion." The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "No reference is made to Edworth church in the Domesday Survey, the first mention that has been found of it is its grant by Roger Burnard between 1175–81 to the priory of St. Neots. [...] The plan of the nave is probably that of a thirteenth-century church, or possibly earlier, but there are no details in position from which a definite date can be deduced. The oldest piece of masonry is a pillar piscina at the east end of the north aisle, of the end of the twelfth century. [...] At the west end of the nave is an octagonal fifteenthcentury font, the sides of the bowl having cusped panelled sides, all varying; the stem bears four shields, one with emblems of the passion, and another with a cross; the other two are plain." Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. With big flowers and shields against the underside and tracery, quatrefoils, etc. against the bowl."