Ault Hucknall / Hault Hucknall / Hault Haucknall

Cox (1875) reports three fonts in this church: one by the main entrance: "a handsome solid modern font after a Norman design"; the other, "against the south wall is the upper part of the old font, circular, massive, and plain. Its diameter is two feet six inches, the depth of the bowl thirteen inches, and the total depth nineteen. The third font, in the modern vestry at the time, "is a banished pilaster abomination which long acted as its substitute". Kelly's Directory of 1891 reports "the original font" in the vestry of the church. Noted in Pevsner (1978): the font belongs to Butterfield's restoration of the 19th century. A font, but no details of it, is mentioned in the Visitor's Guide to this Parish [http://www.aulthucknall.org/Books/AHGuidebook.pdf] [accessed 7 January 2010]. The modern font is illustrated in the Explore Derbyshire's Past' website [http://www.englandspastforeveryone.org.uk/Counties/Derbyshire/Projects/HardwickHall/Items/Ault_Hucknall_Church] [accessed 7 January 2010] [NB: the church goes back to the 11th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]