West Grimstead / West Grinstead

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: C&H erroneously (?) use the spelling "West Grinstead" -- not to be mistaken with its homonym in East Sussex, also listed in C&H -and this Index- with a Norman font]. Described in Buck (1950) as "early Norman [...] The font was apparently a 'tub' font originally which, during the course of time, became damaged around the rim; the rimm was therefore cut down to eliminate the damage, but instead of raising the original font on a separate block of stone [...], another bowl was made and placed on top of the original. This was probably done during the eighteenth century restoration of the church, seeing that this latter bowl has no marks of fastenings".