Landulph

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Cox (1912): "Font, c. 1200, supported on 5 shafts, bears date 1660, when it was restored and replaced in church after Puritan ejection ; used to have initials of churchwardens of that date, but has had a text inscribed during recent years." A booklet published in the mid-1930s and written by the then Rector of the parish, the Rev. J. H. Adams informs: "The font. The base is probably Norman. The plain octagonal bowl of Roborough stone has the following inscription very crudely cut round three of the sides: "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not. S.Y. 1660.' S.Y. may represent the initials of the donor" [or, a churchwarden, as suggested in Cox above]. Pevsner (1970) is not very forthcoming on this object: "Font. Plain, octagonal, on five supports."