Westwood

Lewis (1876) writes: "The font is of eleventh century date, but the cover, is more modern." There is a B&W photograph of this font [1930s?] by George Love Dafnis in Bath in Time, Private Collection [www.bathintime.co.uk/image/340056/westwood-church-font-c-1930s] [accessed 31 January 2011]. Listed in Buck (1951) as one of "several fonts dating from the latter half of the 12th century which, whilst retaining some Norman characteristics such as the chamfered edge, are devoid of all the other usual Norman ornaments, thus showing the tendency towards the Early English style during the period generally known as Transitional Norman", in which group Buck includes: Alvediston, Berwick St. James, Broughton Gifford, Collingbourne Ducis, Odstock and Westwood. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font cover. Perp[endicular], ogee in outline, with crocketed ridges, and a scale pattern. Suspended from an iron bracket." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, the upper rim chamfered; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with graded moulding; on a stem and lower base, both octagonal. Unless the font has been re-tooled or re-cut, it appears of a later date than some of the above claims.