Trusham / Trisma

Oliver (1840-2) writes: "The present church was dedicated […] on 21 November, 1259 […] The circular and unadorned font may have belonged to an earlier structure." Noted as disused in Stabb (1908): "In the porch is preserved an old Norman font; at first sight this might lead one to suppose that the porch has been used as a baptistery, but this is not the case, the font was placed in its present position at a restoration of the church." Described in Clarke (1913) as a tub-shaped baptismal font damaged by a horizontal crack: "A good barrel-shaped font of Beer stone. Round the rim is a band three inches deep of incised trellis pattern; fourteen inches from the top two roll mouldings are set close together. The base, a recent addition, has one round, one ogee, and one flat moulding, and stands on a circular granite plinth 5 1/2 inches high. This font, after being discarded for a long time, was restored to use in 1912, some necessary repairs having been skilfully done." In Pevsner (1952): "Font. Circular, Norman, plain." [NB: we have no information on the octagonal font that was in church as a replacement at the time of Stabb's visit ca. 1908 and that font is not listed in this Index]