Helmdon

The village web site [http://www.helmdon.com/parishchurch/church_history.htm] [accessed 13 April 2009] informs of a renovation of the 13th-14th century church in 1768-1769: "At the same time, 1769, the font was set up north of the central aisle in the west bay of the nave. Baker in the 1820s described the font as small and modern. The present one looks nineteenth-century but perhaps it is a little older and is the one which was set up in 1769. A gun-barrel was provided for that, presumably for its plug-hole." [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church]