Brede

Harrison (1920) reports a Perpendicular font in this church that dates originally from the 13th century. Noted and illustrated in the Roughwood British Churches Album : "The font is 15th century and retains some of its painted decoration." The font consists of an octagonal basin that has four (?) sides decorated with shields charged with coats of arms, brightly painted [re-painted?], alternating with four (?) other sides decorated with tracery; the underbowl chamfer has graded mouldings; the octagonal stem is plain; the octagonal lower base splays slightly; on a a modern two-step plinth with kneeling stone. The tall wooden cover appears to be of the rim-buffet type, the lower volume with straight open sides with crocketed arches, the upper volume pyramidal with crocketed arrises; the finial has a metal hook at the top, perhaps to lift the cover with a winch, despite it appearing to be of the rim-buffet type. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original Early English church here].