New Hunstanton / Hunstanton St. Edmund

The baptismal font at the 19th-century church of St. Edmund is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as "Plain and octagonal, imported 1893". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "The font is lovely, with lead and brass used around the top as a frieze". The font consists of a possibly medieval basin of octagonal shape at the top and rounded on the underbowl; the only visible decoration on it is the graded moulding on it. The "lead and brass" mentioned in Knott [cf. supra] is probably a folding of the lead lining of the well, folded over the rim and decorated with brass inserts that have baptism-related motifs on them [NB: it may be that the rim underneath is badly damaged and the lead fold helps to cover the damage]; there is a moulding also at the bottom of the underbowl chamfer. The rest of the font, octagonal stem and two-step plinth, is modern, as is the octagonal wooden cover decorated with mouldings and a dove (?) finial.