Malborough No. 1

Noted in Stabb (1908) simply as "an old font". Described in Clarke (1922): "A square bowl on a central shaft and four corner shafts; the bowl has an arcade of five round-topped arches on each side. There is modern tooling on the panels of the arcade. The central shaft has a base of three mouldings; the corner shafts are modern, of marble; they have three mouldings on a square plinth as base. The bowl is limestone and has been repaired with slate; it bears considerable traces of whitewash. It is lead lined." Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Norman, square, not high, of the familiar table-top type, with five very shallow blank arches on each side of the top." The major damage and repairs are at the upper angles of the basin; the central shaft of the base appears original, but the four outer colonnettes are modern replacements; the chamfered quadranqular lower base appears original. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration; 19th-century?