Portbury

Described in Rutter (1829): "The font is a ponderous one of the Norman character." Parker (1850) notes three strikingly familiar" fonts of the late-Norman period in North Weston, Portishead and Portbury. Noted in the Proceedings (1881) of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1882): "The font is Norman, very plain; it was removed from the west to its present place in 1875. The shaft was lengthened, and the step or stone platform was added." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, one of three in the county [Locking and Portishead are the others] that have a square internal well in the basin. Listed in Bond (1908) as one of several baptismal fonts of the Norman period/style the basin of which is shaped like a scalloped capital. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=33560] [accessed 9 September 2009] notes: ": C12; square scalloped bowl on circular stem and square base."