Pulloxhill / Polochessele / Pullokeshull

The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "It is recorded that the church was dedicated in 1219 by Robert of Lismore, but as the greater part of the old building, after falling into a ruinous condition, was taken down in 1846 and rebuilt, it only remains to us to deplore the loss of what might have been a valuable dated example of thirteenth-century work. [...] The font, on the south side of the nave, is modern. [...] The first book of the registers contains the baptisms from 1553". The Bedford Borough Council web site entry for this church [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 15 May 2012] notes: "A new font was purchased in 1830". The 1830 font, of neo-Romanesque design, consists of a square basin with slightly tapering sides decorated with a band of nail-head pattern and a blind arcade of three rounds arches supported on columns with capiatls and bases on each side, a square moulded base and a low square plinth; the wooden cover is square, flat and plain; it is located now at the west end of the nave, south side. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].