Ermington

Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "a curious Norman font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as having a baptismal font of the Norman period. Stabb (1908) writes: "The pulpit and font cover are modern, the font is Norman." Described in Lyn Nash (OPC for Ermington [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynnash/Intro.htm] [accessed 27 January 2009]: "To the left of the door as you enter is the font. This is a fairly substantial stone font. A stone cover which looks as if it is the original, rests on the floor and the font itself is now capped with an ornate wooden carved pinnacle cover, presumably late Victorian". [NB: what Lyn Nash identifies as a "stone cover which looks as if it is the original" is actually all that remains of the original Norman font; it is the bottom of the old basin with clearly marked areas where the central shaft, the central drain and the four outer colonnettes were; the sides proper have disappeared, as probably have the five supports and the original lower base of what appears to have been a 'table-top' Norman font; the actual font with its tall-ish wooden cover are both modern]