Kington nr. Hereford

Described and illustrated in the RCHM inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font [...]: round cup-shaped bowl with zigzag ornament round top and cable-moulding round waist, late 12th-century; octagonal stem with moulded top cut from base of bowl, later." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font decorated with a rope moulding among other motifs. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO2913456764] (1953) reports a "Norman circular font with rope-moulding and incised zig-zag". The basin has the 'girded' look of some fonts of this period, where a rope moulding appears to pinch the waist of the basin, the most striking example of which is the great -in looks as well as in size- font at Perpignan [cf. Index entry]. Like the font at Humber, which it somehow resembles, it has acquired a strange profile from te later additions and changes, a 'mongrel' sort of font. It now stands on a two-step octagonal plinth, modern. David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3877] [accessed 5 October 2014] reports: "Set into the floor near the font is a peculiar baptismal tank, added in the 17th or 18th century to baptise people 'of riper years'. " [NB: this may be one of the full immersion fonts of late date found occasionally in the west counties and Wales].