152 THE ANCIENT FONT OF SMALLEY CHURCH. 



or for any secular purpose; and, on the other, it has every 

 appearance of being in reality the ancient Norman font. 

 Another font (now disused), made by a mason who remembered 

 the old one, is said to be an imitation of it, yet its bowl is 

 quite plain. 



[Mr. Currey's description of the newly-discovered bowl would 

 seem to tally almost exactly with that of the ancient font 

 at Mottram in Longdendale, which, curiously enough, has 

 passed through similar vicissitudes. — Ed.] 



