Bristol No. 19 / Westbury-on-Trym

The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=379174] [accessed 16 September 2009] notes: "C19 font, octagonal on marble shafts". The Parish website [http://www.westburychurch.com/wot/content/churchprofile/churchhistory.aspx] [accessed 29 April 2010] reports the introduction of a new font in the 1848 renovation of the church: "of Painswick stone, a new font, given by Robert Phippen, of Bedminster, a[…] but where is the little stone and marble font that previously stood in the north chapel?" The new 1848 font has a round basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, and motifs on the sides, and is located towards the west end of the central nave, on the south side. [NB: there may have been a church -part of a monastery- here as early as the 8th century; the present church goes back to at least the 13th century, but we have no information of the earlier font(s)]