The village of West Camel lies about 7 mi north of Yeovil, on each side of the River Cam, just S of the A303. All Saints church, which is sited on the E side of the village, is largely late 14thc and is cruciform in plan with a tower replacing the S transept. The font is Romanesque.

Between 939 and 975 Saxon kings had granted three thegns, Aelfar, Cinric, and Brihtric lands in 'Cantmell' or 'Cantmel', although the grants could refer to either West or Queen Camel. More certain is the grant by Ethelred II in 995 to Muchelney abbey. The abbey certainly held the estate called Camelle in 1086 which afterwards became the manor of Camel Abbots or West Camel. In DB the Abbey held 9 hides directly and another hide was held of the abbey by Dodeman. (Muchelney abbey retained the manor until the Dissolution - VCH).

In the fieldworker's opinion 'the whole is in good condition but the original work was not very refined'. However, while the detail was done by eye rather than a ruler, the font is a handsome feature which has had far more than the basic minimum of work lavished on it. This may be due to All Saints' monastic patron. One wonders how closely the modern base and stem approximate to the original, if done as a direct restoration. Alternatively, the font could well have been rescued from post-medieval secular use (which would explain the loss of base and stem, and the damage to the rim) and brought back to the church in the 19thc, at which point a suitablly well-proportioned base and stem could have been designed for it from scratch; the rim could have been repaired at the same time.