Great Ashfield / Ashfield Magna

Noted in Parker (1855) as a plain octagonal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Cautley (1982) as a font that "was moved from the original and interesting position it occupied against the north pier arcade." Cautley (ibid.) also notes the wooden canopy. Illustrated in Knott (2008), who writes: "ornate font, looking like a 14th century wedding cake". The basin has a crenellated upper side, with cinquefoil crocketed arch heads on the sides; human heads at the underbowl angles and graded moulding on the chamfer; shield with emblems on the sides of the octagonal pedestal, and buttresses at the angles; moulded lower base; raised on an octagonal plinth. Whitewashed. The font is now [2008] located at the west end of the nave.