Edith Weston / Edi Weston / Editheweston / Edweston / Edyweston / Vestona / Weston / Weston Edith / Weston St. Edith

No entry found for Edith Weston in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a rectangular tub-like baptismal font. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The earliest work in the building dates from c. 1170 and comprises the jambs or responds of the chancel arch and the east respond of the north arcade. The chancel arch itself is later and belongs to the period of the rebuilding of the chancel in the 13th century. [...] The arches, pillars and western respond of the north arcade are somewhat later in character, apparently c. 1190–95, though the difference in style may not necessarily indicate that any long period of time elapsed between the beginning of the arcade at its east end and its completion. It is unlikely that a north aisle and arcade of c. 1170 existed to be followed about twenty years later by another, the probability being that the building of the aisle was interrupted soon after it was begun and not resumed till after an interval. [...] The font is ancient, and consists of a plain rectangular bowl with slightly bevelled angles, on a solid stepped base. [...] The bowl is 2 ft. square, and 17 in. high, the base 18 in. high. The date is uncertain. [...] It has a modern wooden cover (1897)." The quadrangular basin is totally plain, with slightly tapering sides; the inner well is also quadrangular; the 'base' appears to be formed by three volumes, all quadrangular; the top one may be part of the same stone block as the basin; the middle one is independent and constitutes the lower base; the lower volume is the plinth. The basin has through cracks that have been repaired. The wooden cover is rectangular and flat, with metal decoration and a metal cross as finial; four trefoil motifs carved in the wood, at the angles; modern [cf. supra].