Rushbrooke

There is no mention of any font in Parker's 1855 entry for this church. Knott (2008) reports and illustrates two baptismal fonts in this church: "there are two fonts, a recut stone medieval one and a wooden Victorian one. I'm not sure where the stone one came from; it was brought here in the 1980s, and reunited with its column. It may even have been the original font, removed in the 19th century and returned here. But the wooden font is more interesting; an idiosyncratic design, the work of Colonel Rushbrooke, who lived at the Hall in the early 19th century". The stone font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with traceried panels containing charged shields and floral motifs on alternate sides; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with a large floral motif on each side; the octagonal stem has busy tracery all over, and the slightly splaying and moulded lower base appears to be the only part of the medieval font that has escaped the intense Victorian re-carving.