Snargate

Described in Glynne (1877): "The font has a square bowl on stem and base of like form." Torr (1930) notes a baptismal font "probably of the early thirteenth century", square bowl on five supports [NB: these outer colonnettes were not reported in Glynne, who visited the church in 1866]. Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album : "The font has a square bowl and stem, and dated from c.1220. It retains its original lining of lead and has a flat oak lid, probably 16th century." The square basin has plain tapering sides; the square base and lower base appear modern, and could be a replacement of the "five supports" noted in Torr above, or a removal of the four that had been added? The wooden cover is square, flat but of two levels, with a knob handle. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ9765028032] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14, C15 and late C18, restored 1870-72 [...] Font of dressed stone, square, on square stone base with moulded plinth up 2 stone steps from south, set against west pier of north arcade.