Woodford nr. Salisbury

The font here is documented in an 1805 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851). Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, heavy, with encircled quatrefoils." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 6, 1962) notes: "Architectural evidence shows that there was a church in Woodford in Norman times. [...] A 12th-century building appears to have been enlarged or rebuilt in the 13th century [...] In 1845 the church was in urgent need of repair and was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower"; there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides decorated with quatrefoil-in-a-circle panels, raised on an octagonal pedestal base of tapering sides decorated with pipinig or ribs, and a plain octagonal lower base, also octagonal; on a narrow square plinth. The wooden cover is rounded and flat, with metal decorations and lock.