Guston

Noted in Glynne (1877): "The font has a small moulded bowl, on a pedestal like form." [NB: the church fabric goes back to Norman times]. The Parish website [http://www.gustonparishchurch.org.uk/History.html] [accessed 4 February 2010] notes: "he record of the Visitation by Archdeacon Nicholas Harpesfield on the morning of Monday 16th August 1557 reports a state of sad neglect. There was no vicar or vicar’s house, the curacy was vacant, and ‘Master Craford had the parsonage in farm and receiveth great gain’’, which probably means that the income from the land endowed to the church to maintain the curate had been taken over by this Mr Craford and diverted to his own enrichment. The church also showed signs of neglect. The Archdeacon required repairs to ‘the chancel of tile and glass by All Hallows, with timber work.’ There was no mass book, nor altar even, and the font needed a lock and key for its cover, all no doubt sold off during the latter stages of Protestant reform under Mary’s brother, Edward VI." The Parish website [http://www.gustonparishchurch.org.uk/Nave.html] [accessed 5 Febryary 2010] illustrates the present church interior, and in the centre aisle is an octagonal font that appears to be modern, obviously not the same one described in Glynne [cf. supra].