a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 61 (MED) At ure fulcninge biforen þe uantstone.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 149 Þe klennesse of ower fulluhte þet ȝe habbeð et þe fonstan underfonge.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 86 in A. S. M. Clark (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 28 Cristine wiman ic am, iheuen of þe fonston.
c1380 (1879) Orig. draft l. 548 Had he beo in crist be-leued, & fulled in holi fanston.
?c1450 Trivet's Life of Constance in F. J. Furnivall (1876) 236 (MED) A full fyre son..at the foonte stoone was named and called Morys.
1530 R. Whitford (new ed.) sig. A.ij I do..frely gyue my selfe, soule and body..vnto thy handes, to be thy bonde seruaunt for euer, according vnto ye promyse made in my baptysme at ye font stone.
1594 sig. H2 They shal swear it vpon the font-stone.
1720 W. Wall (ed. 3) I. iii. 37 There is at Bridekirk in Cumberland a Font-Stone so antient that Cambden confesses he could not read the Inscription on it.
1895 3 173 A font stone was imported in 1691, and is doubtless the one now in the church.
1997 D. Cressy vi. 148 At Royden, Wiltshire, they ordered re-edification of the decayed chapel and restoration of its font stone.