The font at Tewkesbury Abbey is a bit of a hotch potch. The Purbeck marble base is possibly from a 15thC monument that was subsequently removed whilst the capital decorated with ballflowers could be 14thC.
The marble bowl was carved and added in the mid 19thC, a pleasant hotch potch!
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The 15th century octagonal font in the church at Fornham St Martin #Suffolk with blank shields in roundels between traceried panels. In a dark part of a dimly lit church.
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#FontsOnFriday This font at Chester Cathedral was assumed by the Victorians to be an ancient fifth century originally - actually it is a nineteenth-century copy. No matter, it fits beautifully in the stone vault of the Baptistry.

#FontsOnFriday from St Mary, Cerne Abbas. A C15th font with a modern pillar. The font cover was added in 1963.

This is Holy cross parish church in Binham Norfolk England. It was a Catholic Church until the reformation when it became a C of E parish church. Today’s villagers have Catholic ancestors.

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For #FontsOnFriday, here are two baptismal fonts located in Paisley Abbey, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek.

On the left, a polished Pavonazzo marble and Mexican onyx font donated in 1902, on the right a grand polished marble font, relocated from a nearby United Free Church following its dissolution.

He da big boi #FontsOnFriday from Kilpeck, #Herefordshire, made of sturdy breccia, one of a number of these stonkers in the county. On surprisingly delicate voluted legs. See ⬇️ for the interlaced font stopper, now on a window sill.

15th century font with 17th century cover, St John’s Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire.

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The font at St Mary, Sunderland which probably came as part of the major 1970s reordering scheme, for #FontsonFriday.

The font at St Hilda, Hartlepool for #FontsonFriday. Installed in 1728, the cover is broadly contemporary with it.

The late medieval font from St. Mary’s Church at Attleborough in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Attleborough #Norfolk

The font at St Andrew, Roker, Sunderland by Randall Wells, 1907, the cover a later addition by Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson, for #FontsonFriday.

Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi,
France

A carved marble font.

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Friday

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Font in St Patrick's Cathedral (Church of Ireland), Armagh.

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