{"id":1578,"date":"2013-10-11T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:50:30","slug":"arlingham-church-font-doubles-as-a-dust-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/arlingham-church-font-doubles-as-a-dust-pan","title":{"rendered":"Arlingham Church Font Doubles As A Dust-Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s amusing anecdote is attributed to Aaron Taysum (abt. 1780-1851)<\/a><\/strong> who was the parish clerk at Arlingham, Gloucestershire, taking over the role from his father after he died in 1807.<\/p>\n

In 1886, John Sayer, the son of a former vicar of Arlingham, published his writings which were again republished in 2008 in a book called ‘Antiquities of Arlingham’. Apparently Aaron Taysum utilized a metal basin as a dust-pan. The following excerpt reveals how this basin had previously been used as a font\u2026<\/p>\n

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“The font, as all parishioners know, is of modern work; the elder ones will remember that before this font was placed in the church the wooden structure now adapted as an alms box, and which was provided with a silver basin, was given for this purpose by Lady Mill, then living at the Court, and the representative of the Yate family, and superseded an ancient pewter or metal basin, which had been doing duty for a font, and which subsequently the writer recollects, was used by the clerk, Aaron Taysum, for a dust-pan, until rescued and carried to Slowwe, where it now is. It is very remarkable that there is no trace or tradition of any ancient stone font, such as must have been in the church.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Font which currently stands in
St Mary the Virgin Church at Arlingham<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s amusing anecdote is attributed to Aaron Taysum (abt. 1780-1851) who was the parish clerk at Arlingham, Gloucestershire, taking over the role from his father after he died in 1807. In 1886, John Sayer, the son of a former vicar … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancestors-corner","tag-taysom","tag-taysum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t