Yatton Chapel

No individual entry foun for Yatton Chapel in the Domesday survey [cf. the CRSBI entry infra]. The inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 226) reports: "Font: plain cylindrical bowl, now loose, probably 12th-century, much damaged." [NB: as indicated in the CRSBI entry below, the vessel is very irregular, oval, rather than round, as the measurements show]. The entry for this chapel in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO6270130392] notes: "Former parish church,now redundant.Mid-C12 with alterations of C13,north wall rebuilt during C16 or C17,chancel east end rebuilt 1704 re-using a C13 window.Restored by Redundant Churches Commission during 1970's. [...] Font:possibly C12,damaged,plain cylindrical bowl;second font with plain cylindrical bowl,C12,from disused Church at Brobury." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes that "Yatton was among the lands situated in Archenfield in the Domesday Survey", and inludes both fonts in the entry: 1)Brobury font: "At the W end of the nave, on the N side is a tub-shaped font bowl on a roll-moulded spurred base. It is not symmetrically cut and the bowl has the remains of lock fixings on the rim at E and W. The bowl is unlined. The main decoration is on the rounded spurs of the base. The NE spur is is carved with four parallel ridges radiating out from the bowl, and the other three have recessed ovals, perhaps intended for leaves. There is no plinth or step and the base sites in the uneven floor of the nave." 2)Yatton Chapel font: "Alongside the Brobury font, between it and the N nave wall, is a damaged tub-shaped bowl with convex sides and a generally damaged rim, having a large loss at the N. It is oval rather than circular in plan, being significantly larger in the EW dimension. The font is shallow with a flat bottom and a central drilled hole. All dimensions are necessarily approximate."