Abbots Leigh / Abbotsleigh

An altered font is described in Rutter (1829): "The font is massive and ancient, but has been remounted, and ornamented with angelic busts of modern date." The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=33399] [accessed 9 September 2009] reports a 19th-century font in this church. The font is illustrated in Church Crawler [http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/SOM/Abbotsleigh/HolyTrinity2.html] [accessed 9 September 2009]. Octagonal basin with quatrefoil tracery panels on thee sides, moulded underbowl; raised on a splaying octagonal stem; octagonal wooden cover probably of the same date. This modern font stands at the west end of the nave. [NB: the church was devastated by a fire in the mid-19th century and practically re-built soon after; the font of the 15th-century church was probably destroyed in that fire; was the font also 15th-century, or was it an earlier font re-carved [cf. Rutter supra] to fir the Perpendicular period church?]