Churchdown

Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Late C14, octagonal. Deep bowl decorated with trefoil-headed panels beneath richly crocketed canopies; tapering stem also with trefoil-headed panels." Noted in the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, Recent Grants [...] 16 March 2006 [www.historicchurches.org.uk]: "14th cerntury font". Noted in John Wilkes (2007]: "Witcombe's 15th C font was given to St. Andrew's at Churchdown". The font, which appears monolithic, consists of an octagonal basin of tall vertical sides decorated with a blank trefoil arch with tall crocketed pinnacle on each side, all framed and deeply carved; the inside well of the basin is lead-lined, the lining modern; the tall underbowl, which in this case functions as base as well, is chamfered and decorated with a blank trefoiled arch on each side; octagonal wooden cover probably modern. The whole is directly raised on a plinth, without a 'proper' base.