Gedding

No font mentioned in Parker's 1855 entry for this church of the Decorated period. Knott (2007?) notes and illustrates a font and a possible stoup in this church: "At the west end of the church the font is substantially recut, and perhaps not sealed as well as it might have been given that the panels are beginning to green. The smaller object beside it appears to be a holy water stoup, perhaps from the south doorway, and it looks as if it was an unusual pillar stoup." The font, if it is the medieval original, has been re-cut, as Knott suggests; the panels have either single or double trefoiled arches, the single ones inscribing shields charged with crosses: one is the Latin cross of St. George, another has the saltire cross of St. Andrew; the underbowl chamfer is graded; on a plain octagonal stem with a modern lower base and octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration; modern. The object on the floor may be a stoup; it appears unfinished, but mey be too be the result of re-cutting.