Bedfield

Parker (1855) notes: "The font appears transition D[ecorated]; it is an octagon, with curious and delicate tracery in its panels." Noted and illustrated in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font decorated with tracery; the cover is dated to the 17th century. Knott (2007) reckons the font cover is late 17th-century. The font consists of an octagonal basin with tracery on the sides, and a graded underbowl chamfer; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with one moulding at the top, the lower base splaying and moulded; on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is of the rim-buffet type with opening side doors for acces, the upper volume, however, much like the standard Jacobean design of the vertical scroll ribs around a centre pivot.