• the font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham, South Yorkshire, depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving?
• the 13th-century font in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield (pictured) reputedly suffered a large crack when a horse, stabled inside the church during the English Civil War, kicked it?
• punch bowls were occasionally used as baptismal fonts in dissenting families?

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Baptism

• Russian writer and activist Zoya Krakhmalnikova's baptism in 1971 resulted in her dismissal from her job and from the USSR Union of Writers, which effectively banned her from publishing?
• Charles Atangana was the first Ewondo to be baptised Catholic in German Cameroon?
• Horatia N. Thompson (pictured) was christened with Lord Nelson and Mrs Emma Hamilton as godparents and was later adopted by them as an orphan, even though they were her biological parents?
• Santa Rosa Creek (pictured) was the scene of an 1827 baptism of a Pomo maiden, which event led to the naming of the creek and also the city of Santa Rosa, California?
• during the Holocaust, Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France?
• in 1612 Jewish teacher Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the University of Oxford for changing his mind about being baptized?
• when the 18th century artist Alexis Simon Belle (pictured) had his son baptized, the godmother was only six years old?