By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 197 
has the following inscriptions on the inside, recording two epochs 
of its history :— 
Miss 
Martha Hinton 
Gave this 
Pulpit 
Ano 1637 
W. iH: R. H. 
Restored 
with the 
: Church 
A.D. 1860. 
& Bek 0. W: 
The royal arms are dated G.R. 1789. 
The font is a very remarkable one. The bowl is a circular one 
apparently reduced in height; round the upper part is carried a 
flat and rude arcade with double shafts having cushion capitals, 
and arches formed of two straight lines, as found in Saxon 
structures; this arcade rests.on a band of diaper-work. Below this 
is a band of rudely-carved subjects representing :— 
A serpent with two birds standing on it and two fishes near. 
A soroll of early foliated carving projecting from the mouth 
of an animal. 
A stag ascending a vertical pole with a goose standing behind. 
‘The remainder of the space is filled with a curious interlaced 
pattern, circular in section and of a pattern resembling the figure 
8 repeated. Below this comes a cable-mould and under it a band 
r roughly-inoised intersecting circles. The bowl has been re-faced, 
but the design has doubtless been more or less correctly preserved.! 
It rests on an old circular shaft with splayed plinth and cap. 
7 
1T recollect being told many years ago by the then Rector, the Rev. J. Smith, 
that the surface of the font had been re-cut at the time of the restoration of the 
Church, and that “ most unfortunately” the masons had altered the original form 
of the arcading. If this was so, it would account for its present curious form, 
and might modify opinion as to the very early date of the font.—[Ep.] 
