Ringstead nr. Northampton / Ryngestede / Wringsted

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a plain ancient font on moulded shafts" in this church. Described, with a section illustration of its shaft, in Parker (1849): "The Font stands against the first pillar within the north door. The shaft is of a very singular section: the plain octagonal bason either does not belong to it, or has been set upon it with very little care." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, plain, with a stem with attached keeled shafts; c.1300 perhaps." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The building dates in the main from the first half of the 13th century, but it probably developed from an aisleless church, the nave of which covered the same area as at present. [...] The font is of the early part of the 14th century and has a plain octagonal bowl with moulded under-edge and shafted stem: there is a rectangular recess cut at the north-west angle, probably for the fastening of the cover." The church interior plan in the VCH (ibid.) shows the font located at the west end of the north aisle, just west of the north entranceway