Podimore / Middeltone / Mideltone / Milton Abbatis / Podimore Milton / Puddimore / Puddimore Milton / Milton Podimore

There is an entry for Podimore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5425/podimore/] [accessed 8 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in July 1888 accompanied by the following description: "All circular. Circular bowl, no lining, sides of interior following outside curve, with flat plan, 10" deep, 3" margin. Position, under open West Tower arch. Modern cover." Wade & Wade (1929) report an old font in this church. The National Monuments Record (IoE no. 262773) [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=262773] accessed 5 April 2008] [entry date: 19 April 1961] notes a "Small tub font on shaft" here. [NB: Wade & Wade [cf. supra] mention also a stoup in the S. porch; no date, but presumably from the original 14th-century building?] Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 9, 2006) notes: "The church was recorded in 1189 [...] The church of St. Peter, so dedicated by 1307 [...] comprises chancel, nave with south porch, and west tower, built in the late 13th century or the early 14th of local lias with Ham stone dressings [...] There was a conical cover on the medieval tub font c. 1780." The font consists of a plain tub-shaped basin raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a moulded lower base, also round. Raised on a plain rectangular plinth that appears modern. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; also modern [cf. the VCH entry above about a conical cover pre-1780].