By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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has the following inscriptions on the inside, recording two epochs 

 of its history : — 



Miss 

 Martha Hinton 

 Gave this 

 Pulpit 

 Ano 1637 

 W. H : K. H. 

 Restored 

 with the 

 Church 

 A.D. 1860. 

 G. B. I. I. C. W. 



The royal arms are dated G\B. 1789. 



The font is a very remarkable one. The howl 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 scroll 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 

 of roughly-inoised intersecting circles. The bowl has been re-faced, 

 but the design has doubtless been more or less correctly preserved. 1 

 It rests on an old circular shaft with splayed plinth and cap. 



1 I 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. — [Ed.] 



