Lufton No. 1

Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "ancient Norman font". Wade & Wade (1929) report: "The church has been rebuilt, but preserves its Norman font (with cable moulding), and a holy-water stoup (within the S. door)". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Norman, with one cable-moulding and crosses in circles." Described and illustrated in the Parish web page [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lufton/page1.html] [accessed 26 March 2008]: "The Norman font, the great treasure of the church, is of a date no later than the eleventh century. It testifies to the long witness of Christian worship on this site, as it may even be Saxon in origin, carved out of a single block of Ham stone, and is a plain tub shape, with a simple rope moulding as decoration, its detail still as clear and precise after a thousand years as when it was first carved." The font is tub-shaped, roughly cylindrical, with a band of cross-in-a-circle motif around the upper basin side, and a thick rope moulding around its middle; the broad base is made of several stone blocks cemented together.