Bentford

Noted and illustrated by Charles Moorhen in Picable [http://www.picable.com/Architecture/Churches/Wooden-Font-Cover.110251] [accessed 18 January 2009]. [NB: the location may be an error, though the font appears real enough -- Brentford?] -- Baptismal font consisting of a square basin with vertical sides decorated with an arcade of trefoil arches, five per side; raised on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes; the central shaft appears square and has pairs of arches, identical to those on the basin sides, on each side; the outer colonnettes have moulded capitals and bases; raised on a quadrangular plinth. The wooden font cover, of square pyramidal shape with a ball finial, is said to date from the early 17th century (1605?)