Chapel-en-le-Frith

Cox (1875-1877) mentions an old font of octagonal design "apparently of the fifteenth century. On one side is a shield charged with a quatrefoil." Noted in Bunting (1940): "The font, according to an old plan of 1702 once near the west end of the north aisle, is now in the baptistery beneath the tower. It is of plain octagon construction and apparently of the fifteenth century. On one side is a shield carved with a quatrefoil. There is a tale that during the re-pewing of the church in 1828 this font was temprarily put in the churrchyard, and that a local lawyer, being unable to obtain payment for his charges and disbursements for obtaining the faculty, took possession of the font, by arrangement with the churchwardens and placed it in his garden where it remained for many years. Mr. Grey the then vicar of Buxton wished to have the font along with a quantity of oak from the old pews which had been given to him, but the lawyer would not allow the font to go out of the parish, and in 1841 he restored it to its rightful place, the vestry empowering the churchwardens 'to set it up in a splendid manner'". In Pevsner (1978): "Font. C15."