It rests on a modern pedestal, which is unremarkable enough, but the inscription on the base quietly announces something stranger: according to local tradition, the stone did not originate at the church at all. It came from a graveyard roughly two hundred metres to the east.

The font itself is a plain, circular granite stone, half a metre across and about twenty-four centimetres high, with a fairly flat base. Cut into its upper surface is a circular basin, thirty-five centimetres in diameter and fifteen centimetres deep, also flat-bottomed and, notably, without a drain-hole. A baptismal font, used for the ritual blessing of water and the christening of infants, would typically need some means of draining or emptying, so the absence here is quietly puzzling. Whether this stone was always used as a font, or served some other purpose before that role was assigned to it, is not recorded. What is known is that it passed from a burial ground into the care of the church, carrying with it a local memory preserved in stone and inscription rather than in any formal document.