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Object type: Font and columnar base
Measurements: H. (to top of bowl) 73.2 cm (29.25 in), (to break in column) 35.4 cm (14 in) Circumference of column 116 cm (46 in)
Stone type: Massive pale yellow sandstone
Plate numbers in printed volume: Pl. 151.791
Corpus volume reference: Vol 1 p. 151-152
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The bowl of the font is a simple half-spherical shape and is set on a plain stout column with a projecting band at the top. The lower part of the column and part of the bowl are pick-marked.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).
The simple bowl type and columnar base could be either pre- or post-Conquest. Morris considers that there might be traces of interlace on the column, but I am unable to see them. The column and part of the bowl could have been recut, but in any case it is difficult to date so simple a piece.
