St John the Baptist, Edlingham for #FontsFriday

An elaborately chiselled stone font, with a round top (this holds the water for baptism) on a round base. The base has four protruding heads of beasts and human figures. The other carvings show scenes from a medieval legend. There is hardly a fragment of the font that’s not decorated.

Close-up of a protruding head: a lion holding a small animal in its mouth.

Close-up of another protruding figure - not a head this time but two persons on horses on each side of the corner (yes, the font is round, but you know what I mean) embracing in the middle.

For #FontsFriday, the font from Valleberga church, southern Sweden, made in the 1170s by the so-called Tryde master (Tryde being a nearby church with an equally splendid font).

The beautiful font by James Forsyth at Saint Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley, Worcestershire.

Great Witley: allabouthistory.co.uk/mACKdylM

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The remarkable Herefordshire School of Carving font depicting the Harrowing of Hell and knights in combat at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley, Herefordshire.

Herefordshire School of Carving : allabouthistory.co.uk/grb17BSC

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Medieval stone font with a steeple shaped wooden cover taller than the font itself

Flat based dark metal cart with twin hoops at each end. large central wheels.

A font with a towering and very grand wooden cover. Lower Benefield Church, Northamptonshire. Next to it is a #cart for moving #coffins. Hatches and dispatches. #fontsfriday #church #medieval

A personal photo of 12th century baptismal font with three supporting stone shafts, in differing styles, replaced at later dates. Their appearance is slightly haphazard.

A personal photo of St Thomas a Becket church in Pulham, Dorset, England showing the nave, chancel, vestry and square tower. Of modest size with coursed rubble construction.

C15-C16 St Thomas a Becket church at Pulham, #Dorset, England. The font is C12 indicating an earlier church. My 4x great-grandmother was baptized here in 1776. I wonder if the shafts were replaced in emergency situations! #fontsfriday #Genealogy #FamilyHistory