Kingston Deverill No. 2

A letter to the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of Oct. 15, 1815: p. 393) includes a description of the Deverill chcurches, among which, with reference to Kingston Deverill, notes: "The interior produces nothing to notice except the font, which is very old, the body is square, supported by four small columns round a larger in the centre." Buck (1951) writes: "The church was rebuilt in 1847 and the old font discarded, but the bowl has since been recovered and placed in the chancel [NB: this must be a refrence, not to the old square basin, but to the goblet-shaped basin -- listed in this Index as Kingston Deverill No.1]. The new font has a large square bowl, of which the inner basin is circular and comparatively shallow; on the outer sides a cable runs around the top and four heads project from the top corners, presumably intended to represent the emblems of the Four Evangelists [...] whilst the sides are carved with an intersecting arcade having pelleted arches. The weight of the bowl is supported on a centre stem and four corner shafts, of which latter the marble columns are typical of the Victorian age" [cf. Index entry for Kingston Deverill No. 1 for a Saxon (?) font found in the churchyard and reconstructed in 1982].