The Font at St. Mary's, Burnham Deepdale
The carvings in the stone of the impressive square Norman font in St. Mary's Church, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk show the changing types of labour - and rest - throughout the months of the farming calendar. The months run anti-clockwise so that one walks around it with the sun and not against it which would be 'widdershins' and against nature - the devil would be waiting!
The farming calendar
January - Drinking
February - Warming feet
March - Digging
April - Pruning
May - Rogationtide
June - Clearing weeds
July - Scything
August - Sheaf binding
September - Threshing
October - Grinding corn
November - Slaughtering pig
December - Feasting