Creed / St. Creed / Sen Krida

Described in Cox (1912): "an excellent E[arly] E[nglish] example, early in I3th cent.; bowl 36 in. in diameter, octagonal, with 2 pointed arcades on each face ; central shaft original, but 4 smaller octagonal shafts renewed in lighter stone." Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". This font is one of them. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. C13, of Catacleuse (?) stone, octagonal, with two shallow blank niches with pointed heads to each side." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Creed.html] [accessed 16 November 2009]. The lower base is quadrangular; stands on a modern plinth.