Yate

Noted in Paley (1844) as one of only two fonts in England with an octagonal-shaped inner well; octagonal mounted font of the 15th century in the Perpendicular style; there is a row of floral ornamentation at the upper basin border; below it there is a moulding and each side of the basin has a large quatrefoil motif surrounding a Tudor rose or "the feathered cusps of the quatrefoil", as Paley (ibid.) puts it; the octagonal stem of the base has blank moulded panels; the plinth is oval in shape. Paley (ibid.) mentions "a large and cumbrous cover, apparently of the seventeenth century", which is left out of the illustration in his book. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "The best 15th-cent. font, of a plain description". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal. Bowl with enriched quatrefoils; panelled stem."