Turners Puddle / Turner's Puddle / Toners Puddle / Toners Piddle

Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "The Ch[urch] has a fine Norm[an] font, with interlacing work". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), in Long (1923) and in Mee (1939) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In the RCHM (1970). The entry in Newman & Pevsner (1972) under Affpuddle reads: "Font. Norman, round, with tapering sides. Intersecting arches" -- it obviously refers to this font, now located in the church at Affpuddle. Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]: the basin is round, bucket-shaped, and has significant damage to its upper rim, the kind of damage consistent with the forceful removal of the staples of the old cover. This same source informs that the church is redundant and that the font was moved to the Lady Chapel of the Church of St. Lawrence in nearby Affpuddle [with its own Norman font as well].