Crowland No. 1 / Croyland

There is no individual entry for Crowland in the Domesday survey. Rickman (1825) writes: "The church has a large Perpendicular font, of the block shape, noticed at Kelby, but ornamented with panelling; it has also a very large stoup under a niche at the entrance; this is remarkable, as being a plain cylinder on the floor, as large as a font, and the same date as the font itself ." Allen (1833) notes: "The font is octagonal, adorned with arch work and roses on the base." [cf. Index entry for Crowland No. 2 for an earlier font in this church reported also in Allen (ibid.) This font appears in an illustration of the church interior in Cotman (1838, vol. 2). It is noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "an ancient font divided into compartments". Illustrated in Bond (1908) in the context of his description of a wall-mounted stoup or piscina [cf. Index entry for Crowland No. 2 for that object]. Bond's illustration [a drawing by Roland Paul], shows an octagonal basin that folds into a square at the lower base; the basin panels ar ornamented with pairs of trefoil arches and double quatrefoil windows below. This font is the one noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "simply octagonal Perp[endicular".