2-798-617 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Font in Caistor Church, Norfolk, 1845. Medieval stone font in the church of Caistor St Edmund. 'At the south-east corner of the chancel is a small spring, or well of water, about five feet deep, which is always full, and extremely cold. The font was erected by Richard of Castor, in 1402; and on it are sculptured, in compartments, the emblems of the Holy Trinity, the few Evangelists, with the instruments of the Passion, the arms of the last Angles, West Saxons, and Bury Abbey...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.