English leadwork : its art & history / Lawrence Weaver.

  • Lawrence Weaver
Date:
1909
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Credit: English leadwork : its art & history / Lawrence Weaver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arcading and the narrow middle band of scrollwork, but there is no slavish likeness in detail or size. The lowest band differs in the two, the Pyecombe font (Fig. 16; having- an arcading of fifteen, with floral work within the arches; the Edburton example (Fig. 15) shows the scrolls without the arches. Fig. i 8a.—Haresfield, Glos. 1 he Pyecombe bowl is 6 feet in circum¬ ference and 15 inches deep, that of Edburton is 5 feet and 13^ inches respectively. I hough distinctively Norman in char¬ acter, the coming of Gothic is apparent in Fig. 19.—Eythorne. the trefoil heads of the upper arcading. The general effect is perhaps a little suggestive of embroidery, but very successful. The decoration of the Haresfield font (Fig. i8a) is paradoxical, and raises a some¬ what difficult question of date. The arcading has the character of fourteenth-century work, while the buttoned vertical shafts suggest the seventeenth. Several authorities consulted vary in their attribution of date, but as the cusping can hardly be post-Gothic, Fig. 20.—Childrey. Fig. 21.—Wychling.