1 68 SOME DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



in England. These lead fonts are all very similar. . . The 

 height is about i ft. and the diameter about 2 ft. Round the 

 outside are twenty figures of men, all dressed alike, under 

 precisely similar canopies, which run round in the form of an 

 arcade."' Its dimension, as i ft. 2 ins. and i ft. 11^ ins. 

 respectively, and fuller details of this interesting relic of Derby- 

 shire plumbery are given by Dr. Cox in Vol. IX. of this Journal, 

 where he supplies a list of thirty leaden fonts in England, 

 tw'enty-one of which he assigns to the Norman period. 



Derbyshire has many fonts worthy of Mr. Le Blanc Smith's 

 attention, and we trust that this selection is but the com- 

 mencement of a series. 



