Whatley / Watelei

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 September 1887 accompanied by the following description: "Outside - circular bowl and stem, on an octagonal base which is square at the foot. Inside, bowl is circular, with lead lined sides following outside irregular curve, flat bottom. 4 inch margin; 10 1/2 deep. Modern cover." Wade & Wade (1929) write: "The church is a small Dec. building with a rather dim interior. The W. tower, like the neighbouring church of Frome, carries a spire. There is a plain Norm. doorway within the porch. A projecting chantry chapel on the S. has a squint (note the accommodating bulge in the external wall), and contains an altar tomb with recumbent effigy of Sir Oliver de Servington (1350)", but we have no information on the original font of the original Norman church. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958), who has only the entry for St. George's. [NB: Whatley has one church, St. George -- nearby Chantry has a late church, Holy Trinity, by C.E. Scott -- to be resolved]