Wayford

No entry found for Wayford in the Domesday survey. The font here is described in Pulman (1854) as "very large and of octagonal shape" and located under the west gallery. Wade & Wade (1929) report "an old octagonal font" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "A chapel at Wayford was first mentioned in 1266 [...] The chapel, with cure of souls, was a daughter to Crewkerne, though the incumbent was always styled rector [...] It is a small plain stone structure, mostly rendered, comprising chancel, north vestry, nave, north aisle, south porch, and western bell turret. The chancel and nave are of later-13-th-century origin" [there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry]. The entry for this church in the British Listed Buildings site [Listing NGR: ST4048006655] reports: "plain octagonal font of uncertain date, but possibly C14". The entry for this church in the Wulfric Benefice site [www.wulfric.org/our-churches/st-michael-and-all-angels-wayford/] [accessed 14 February 2018] notes: "The octagonal font is 14th century."