Aller St Andrews Church Somerset Mucker Movies

The hamstone building has slate roofs. It consist of a three-bay nave and two-bay chancel . The three-stage tower is supported by corner buttresses .
Inside the church most fittings are from the 19th century, but the timber pulpit survives from 1610 and it has two fonts one tulip shaped and the other octagonal. The font is a simple limestone bowl, less than a metre tall, which is thought to be Saxon in origin, one of only three in England and was possibly the one used for the baptism of Guthrum after his defeat by King Alfred The Great after the Battle of Ethandun in 878. It was retrieved from the pond of the vicarage garden around 1870 and now stands in the south-west corner of the nave. A copy of the font was made by a stonemason in Corvallis Oregon , in the 1880s, to memorialise the son of the rector of Aller, Rev. J.Y. Nicholson. The copy of Aller's historic font was in the Episcopalian Church of the Good Samaritan