Bunny / Bunny with Bradmore

Cox (1912) reported only a modern font in his time [cf. infra]. Two fonts noted and illustrated in the Bunny Village Historical Society web site [http://www.bunnyvillage.org.uk/baptismmain.htm] [accessed 2 October 2009]: "Bunny Church contains two fonts which have both been used for baptisms. The one at the west end of the north aisle is thought to date from the 11th century. This font was dug out of a field in Bunny Moors around 1916 where it was being used as a cattle drinking trough. The font at the east side of the north aisle is modern in comparison." The older font consists of a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on a cylindrical pedestal base; the basin and base are not matched, and it is quite likely that the base is a later addition; the basin appears to have been badly damaged, repaired and re-tooled; the wwoden font cover on this font is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. The newer font is octagonal, the basin with quatrefoils on the sides, a graded moulding on the underbowl and an octagonal-to-square lower base; probably 19th-century. Neither font mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979). [NB: the Keyworth & District Local History Society [http://www.keyworth-history.org.uk/histories/bradmore.htm] [accessed 1 October 2009] notes: "Bradmore has, for centuries, been linked with Bunny […] The church was, for most of its history, a chapel of ease with no font or graveyard - baptisms and burials had to be conducted in Bunny […] Except for the tower and steeple, the 14th Century, Anglican church [of Bradmore] was destroyed by fire in July, 1705."]