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SOME DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



remarkable for its clearness of photographic detail. The author 

 deals with his subject throughout in a confident and concise 

 method peculiarly his own, and welcome, even in theoretical 

 archaeology. 



I. — The font at Youlgreave, we are told, is of the Norman 

 period, and " unique in the possession of a projective ' stoup ' 

 or ' chrismatory,' and, unlike the font at Pitsford, Northants 



Fig. 2. — Font at ^Vinstel■. 



(which has a ledge), it posses.ses one hollowed out in the same 

 manner as the font itself." Mr. Smith calls attention to " the 

 somewhat rare device of a ' salamander,' or species of dragon- 

 like lizard," and to the ornamentation of the fleur-de-lys. The 

 latter is interesting in that it was the favourite design upon 

 the Norman coinage of England, and yet almost unknown upon 

 our Saxon money. It may be added that the particular forrti 



