Wretton / Wireton

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, has a nave and a south isle, the nave covered with reed, and is about 54 feet long, the isle with lead, and together are about 28 feet broad; at the west end of the nave is a low four-square tower, and a small shaft; herein are 2 bells [...] The chancel is about 23 feet long, and 17 broad, covered with reed". This parish is not mentioned in Domesday, but patronage details given in Blomefield (ibid.) show that this church existed alreadt ca. 1218. The font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Plain, octagonal, C14." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, with a graded underbowl chamfer, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with splaying lower base, a single moulding at the top of the shaft. On an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden font cover is round, flat and plain, with acorn finial. There is some repaired damage to the sides of the basin, peobably related to a hardware from an old cover. [NB: we have no information on tghe font from the early-13th century(?) church here].