Over Haddon No. 1 / Nether Haddon

Included in Davies (1811) description of the chapel at Haddon Hall: ''By the side of the altar is a niche and a basin for holy water: an ancient stone font is likewise preserved here.'' Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "an ancient Norman font". Cox (1875-1877) notes a "plain circular Norman font" in this chapel, which "proves that in those days it possessed the rights of baptism." Noted and Illustrated in André (1883). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period inside the private chapel. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font, Plain, circular, Norman, with Jacobean cover of double-curved scrolls meeting below a central knob." Bunting (2001) writes of one of several fonts "in the Peak District, where beautifully polished local stones were also used in later fonts as at Over Haddon [...]" [NB: according to Bunting (ibid.) the font at Haddon Hall is Norman, but there is "a later octagonal holy water stoup" there as well [cf. Davies'supra]; This is described in Cox (1887) with a suggested date of the 15th century for it]