Tortworth

The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "an old font" in this church. Described in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman, severely scraped. Octagonal bowl with scallops like inverted cones growing out of the cylindrical stem. Flat cover of 1663 , capped by Caröe with an excrescence of wrought-ironwork linked to the lifting gear." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides that are plain but for the scalloped lower end, raised on a cylindrical stem and a cylindrical lower base; narrow quadrangular plinth [NB: the scalloping around the bottom of the basin sides is not the typical one found on cushion capitals, but with deeper indentations in the grooves between the curves]. There is damage to the rounded lower base. The flat octagonal wooden cover with carved upper surface has a metal centre-piece that is rigged to a raising mechanism, as indicated in Verey & Brooks [cf. supra].