Malpas

Noted in Pevsner (1971): "Font. Octagonal; Perp[endicular]. Quatrefoils on the bowl, fleurons on the base, panelling on the stem." The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with large quatrefoil panels, not all identical, as some have 3-leaf motifs on the internal points of the quatrefoil; the chamfered underbowl has a rosette on each panel, a motif that appears also on the splaying lower base; the sides of the stem are decorated with trefoil panels and the stem has a moulding at either end. Octagonal wooden cover decorated with thacery (?) raised mouldings on the angles of the very low pyramid; finial. [We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font]