North Cheriton / Cheritone

No entry found for North Cheriton in the Domesday survey. Phelps (1836) reports "an ancient font" in this church. Wade & Wade (1929) report a tub font in this church. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes: "There was a church in 1256 [...] The church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, dedicated to his Decollation in 1530 [...] Fittings include a Norman font with Jacobean cover". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST6872625826] reports: "font a plain tub, possibly C12, with Jacobean cover". 'A Guide to the Camelot Parishes' notes: the Norman font is bucket shaped in stone; it is thought that it might have been originally been placed in a stream or spring as it has a filled-in section which could have been a 'lip launder'; the font cover, with its ogee shaped ribs, is Jacobean [source: http://camelotp.webspace.fish.co.uk/html/north_cheriton...] [accessed 11 March 2008]. No font mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The font is probably a composite of three parts: a plain bucket-shaped basin or probably Norman date; an octagonal lower base right beneath the basin; and a crude octagonal block below. The wooden cover is octagonal and therefore probably not meant for this font; it consists of an octagonal platform with eight raised scroll ribs around a turned pivot with a ball finial; 17th-century?