Lamerton / Lamberton

A description of this church, which he visited on 21 July 1875) appears in Charles Worthy (1887). It is of special interest since the church would be devastated by a fire only two years after his visit. Worthy mentions the font inside: "The font, which stood at the end of the nave, was octagonal and of Decorated date. It was formed of Roborough stone, and was ornamented with four-leaved flower, the keys of St. Peter in saltire, and the cross flory." Although Worthy (ibid.) comments on the destruction caused by the fire: "Nothing but the four walls and the skeleton of the tower remained entire; all else was in ruins, and only two or three of the memorials of the dead were to be seen on the walls", he does not mention the fate of the font (although his use of the past tense -was- may mean that the font was destroyed in the fire). A font of the Decorated period in this church is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), but there are no details given there that would permit us to identify it -or not- with the one described in Worthy. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1952) or Hoskins (1954). [NB: Worthy (1887) cites a Bull of Exemption from Pope Celestine III dated 20 May 1193 as the first historical reference to the church at Lamerton: "Ecclesiam de Lamberton cum omnibus pertinentiis", which may mean there had been an earlier font (Norman?) in this church]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX4510577075]: "Parish church. Late C14/early C15 [...] C19 octagonal granite font in nave with octagonal stem and carved sides."