Posted by Stan Wears on 27/6/2025, 12:16 pm, in reply to "Re: A end of the week Header at St Paul's in Jarrow."
Maria, the reason why we have font tops goes back to the medieval era when the monks used to steal the holy water to make ale. From then they were locked! Rievaulx Abbey near York turned out 2000 gallons of the stuff every month. It went off quick so they invited the local ladies in for a booze up at weekends! Trust me Maria, I got that info from Martin Whittock, a university lecturer at Oxford and advisor to the BBC !
