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All Saints Church, Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk, England

The octagonal freestone font of the 'evangelistic type at one time presented a smooth surface, having been infilled with plaster at the time of the Reformation. The Rev. Wallace suspecting this, discovered the carvings by removing the plaster with his pocket knife. Evangelistic fonts, so named because of the carvings of symbols of the four Evangelists, occur in other Norfolk churches, but all are within seven miles of navigable water. The limestone from which they are carved was probably transported from Lincolnshire by water and carved on the site by a mason imported for the task. Robert and Elizabeth Botwright had three of their children, John (1609), Lettice (1613) and John (1616) baptised at the church. The baptismal font was installed at the church around the year 1350, so you are looking (below) at the actual font used for the baptism of their children.

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