Winscombe

Listed in Betjeman (1958: 330) as a Norman font. Described in Pevsner (1958): "C13, and very uncommon. Big, circular, on a base like those of circular piers, and with, as its bowl, a kind of very broadly detailed moulded capital." Jones (2002) dates it to the 13th century. The font consists of three volumes: the basin is cylindrical and unadorned but for two thick horizontal roll mouldings, one at each end; the stem is also cylindrical and much narrower, decorated with two roll mouldings; the lower base, of a circumference somewhere between the basin's and the stem's, is almost identical in shape to the basin. Modern wooden font cover, flat and plain. This font has a rather austere, even awkward appearance, of an uncommon, but not interesting or successful, design.