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DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



The photograph shows the south-east side and the base, 

 which has a broad beading or moulding round it, and upon which 

 the font was mounted in Norman times. In all, there are six 

 compartments, all of which, with the sole exception of that on 

 the left of the photograph, contain the aforesaid dragons or 

 bird-Uke creatures. It will be noticed that below these six 

 compartments there is a plain border, and below which again are 



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 FONT XT WILNE. 



six little panels which were once supposed to contain runes. 

 These runes, as Bishop Browne demonstrated, are nothing more 

 nor less than the inverted feet of men, the bottom of M'hose 

 tunics are just to be seen. Between the compartments on the 

 upper part are rude pillars having, to coin a new word, fleur-de- 

 lys-like capitals ; one is to be seen in the centre of the photo- 

 graph, upside down, of course. These columns have been 



