Creech St. Michael / Crice

There is an entry for Creech [St <ichael] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2725/creech-st-michael/] [accessed 3 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1958) writes: "The typical octagonal type of the Perp[endicular] style." The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [IoE No. 270578] [accessed 24 May 2009] notes a Perpendicular font in this church. The entry for this parish in the Victroria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "The church of Creech formed part of the endowment of Montacute priory c. 1102 [...] Fifteenth-century fittings include the base of the rood screen, the font, and richly carved bench ends now in the chancel". The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with large quatrefoil penls some of which have floral motifs inscribed, others are blank; the underbowl chamfer is covered in deeply-carved foliage all around, not a common feature in tis type of font; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with eight trefoiled arches or windows, and a moulded lower base. The font is very eroded, as if it had been buried or left out in the elemnts for a long time. The wooden cover consists of an octagonal box-like platform with four very thick crocketed ribs holding up a cross finial.