Corbridge

A font is illustrated in the context of the west end of the nave and tower in Pevsner (1957); the basin of this font appears octagonal, with carved panels between colonnettes at the angles; on a pedestal (?) base and a two-step plinth. Forster (2008) notes: "The baptistry is in the tower recess and has a fine modern florigated font, presented by a lady to the church; but it is to be regretted that the odl font, supposed to have been as old as the church, should have been purposely broken to pieces". [NB: the base of the tower remains from the original 8th-century church -- it is unlikely that the font refered to as broken to pieces was the original one, but perhaps a later, medieval one, from one of the other periods of the church [Norman, Early English, etc.]]. [NB: Pevsner (1957) mentions another church in Corbridge, dedicated to St. Helen, of which only part of the east gable remains].