This distinctive Romanesque font at the church of St Margaret of Antioch, Crick is one of the most characterful 12th-century fonts in Northamptonshire. The cylindrical sandstone bowl is decorated with a dense field of large, hemispherical beads arranged in horizontal rows—a bold, tactile ornament strongly associated with mid-12th-century sculptural practice in the central Midlands.

The bowl is carried on three squat atlas figures (or telamons), each carved in the round and shown crouching beneath the weight of the basin. Their forms, broad-shouldered, muscular, and stylised, belong to the expressive, sometimes playful vocabulary of Romanesque sculpture. Such anthropomorphic supports are unusual in English fonts, and the Crick example is one of relatively few where the figures survive intact.

The font stands on a low multi-sided plinth, providing stability for the heavy structure. Its vigorous carving and unusual form have long made it a local curiosity; it is commonly referred to as the “Dalek font” because the beaded bowl resembles the science-fiction silhouette of a Dalek.

Despite the humorous nickname, the font is a significant piece of Midlands Romanesque sculpture, typologically comparable to the beaded fonts of Ewerby (Lincolnshire) and the anthropomorphic supports seen at Toller Fratrum (Dorset), though the Crick combination of the two elements is distinctive.