This 13th-century font at St Giles, Chesterton, is a plain circular bowl that tapers slightly towards the base, typical of the restrained Gothic forms that replaced the richer Romanesque carving of the previous century. The bowl has a simple moulded top rim and a broad chamfered lower edge, giving the vessel a clean, architectural profile without decorative foliage or figure work.

The font sits on a substantial cylindrical stem, itself placed upon a larger stone base, likely medieval but re-worked or re-set when the church floor was altered. The overall silhouette—wide at the top, narrowing to mid-height, then broadening again at the foot—reflects the emerging 13th-century preference for functional, uncluttered forms emphasising mass and stability rather than carved ornament.

Although undecorated, the Chesterton font is representative of the early Gothic shift toward simplicity, and demonstrates the practical, workmanlike stone carving typical of rural Warwickshire in the 1200s.