Molash No. 1 / Moldash / Molesse / Mollesh

Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl of Norman character, bearing a plain Norman arcade. The stem is later and has four angel figures". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Newman (1976): "Font. Norman. The usual square bowl, with four shallow sunk arches each side. Modern stem." In Neame (1993): "the Norman font, which tradition relates to have been found years ago (in fact since 1800) being used as a cattle-trough at Church Farm, is considerably older than the building in which it now stands [...] it seems to have been turfed out in favour of a newer font presented by the Malmains family who held land in the area during the C.13. Their arms appeared on the new one and also in one of the stained glass windows: 'Gu. 3 dexter hands ar. a crescent at fesse point' [...] The Malmains armorial font has disappeared; and the pre-armorial C.12 font is back in the S.W. corner of the church after perhaps as long as 700 years in the open air [...] The font, in the S.W. part of the nave, dates from the C.12 at the latest; a block of limestone, 2' 4" square, decorated with four shallow-sunk Romanesque arches on all four sides [...] the stand or stem is of the strangest shape, like a star with a very tiny body and four triangular rays. The base is a square affair of the plainest [...] In the course of its mysterious existence, the font has sustained serious damage to one corner."