Farmborough

Lewis (1876) notes: "The font, which formerly stood in one of the pews, has been placed near the north door. It originally came from Surrey, and is about the same date as the tower", which Lewis describes as Late Perpendicular. The baptismal font appears of a somewhat doubtful pedigree, as the stem and lower base are well worn, whereas the basin looks rather too fresh for the Perpendicular period. Is this a composite font? The basin is octagonal and the sides are decorated with floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils, themselves in square panels; the underbowl chamfer is plain; the octagonal stem has trefoil arches or windows, and the splaying lower base is plain; the octagonal plinth appears modern, as does the octagonal pyramidal wooden cover. There appears to be a metal band around the lower basin side, which may have been added to reinforce a repaired basin. Lewis' s Dictionary of 1848 dates the church to the "late English style" [i.e., Perpendicular/ High Gothic]. No font mentioned in Pevsner (1958).