Bathwick

A Parish history by Benjamin Maslen, edited by Colin Hunt [http://www.acny.org.uk/page.php?V=11058&P=3431] [accessed 11 March 2008] notes: "The font from the old church is now housed in St. Mary’s [...] Upon entering the building through the south-west porch, the first object to strike the visitor is the Early English font, one of the few remaining vestiges of the old parish church. Although in a very poor state of repair now, a scheme for the re-ordering of St. Mary’s drawn up during the early 1980s envisaged its returning to regular us[e], in a new position towards the east end of the nave. The scheme was not carried out, and the old font, from which many generations of Bathwick Christianfolk were baptised, remains in its rather bleak home as a pedestal for flower arrangements [...] the pink alabaster font, incorporating a most attractive figure of the Virgin and Child on September 22nd of the same year. The old font was sent to Woolley, returning some seventy years later" [NB: the alabaster font is from 1907]