English leadwork : its art & history / Lawrence Weaver.

  • Lawrence Weaver
Date:
1909
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    stone font has taken its place. Of the five post-Reformation lead fonts it is notable, in that it is alone in possessing- figure decoration. Class D.—Consisting of Nine Fonts without Figures or Arcading. The Wychling bowl (Fig. 21) is a good deal disfigured by the rather aggressive modern woodwork which has been added, presumably to keep the leadwork in shape. Fig. 28.—Down Hatherley. Fig. 29.—Slimbridge. It is the simplest of the pre-Reformation fonts, and, though difficult to date (the stringy ornament has a curiously modern look), it is probably of the end of the thirteenth century. It is an example of the chequered history of metal fonts. The rector states that the font was found when he restored the church, built into a lot of brickwork and “providentially