Badgworth / Bageweare

Noted in The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=268751] [accessed 11 December 2008] [after Pevsner, 1958?]: "Font on 4 clustered shafts probably C13". The Parish web site [http://www.crookpeakparish.org.uk/index.asp?pageid=78642] [accessed 11 December 2008] has: "of very early date probably Early English or Norman". The cylindrical basin shows signs of new-stone insert repair at the upper rim area, consistent with the position of old cover staples; it otherwise appears to have undergone a drastic clean up; the splaying lower base forms a quatrefoil shape and is moulded. The wooden font cover is flat and round, and appears modern. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The font is listed and illustrated in the CRSBI entry for this church [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11347] [accessed 2 July 2025]: "Centrally placed at the W end of the nave, quite well forward of the tower arch. The bowl is a simple cylinder, only refined on its underside, and rests on four clustered shafts which terminate in nicely moulded bases. There is no plinth, the font resting directly on the stone floor. The bases imitate two cones, the lower and larger being inserted into the upper and smaller. There is no necking between base and stem, the latter consisting of two very unequal blocks. The interesting underside of the bowl is recessed and divided from the curved bottom of the bowl by a delicate roll. The top of the bowl shows repairs at NNW and SSE some of which may be evidence of ripped-out lock-fittings. Metal stubs and holes may also be seen. The lead covers almost the whole of the rim except where it appears to have been torn away.