Thurloxton is a village 5 miles NE of Taunton, and 5 miles SW of Bridgwater, Somerset, on the SE slopes of the Quantock Hills. The church of St Giles lies in the centre of the village, close to the present manor house. It is built of random red sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, and comprises a W tower, nave with S porch and N aisle, and a chancel. There is a Romanesque tub font.

Thurloxton is not recorded in DB. The manor and church were held by Taunton Priory until the Dissolution. (Bush, 1994).

The font is unusually simple in design. Whether or not it was commissioned by Taunton Priory, it was presumably held to be satisfactory and its survival implies there was no impetus to update or replace it in later centuries even though the rest of the church was rebuilt.