152 DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



to introduce an element of nature into the foliage, the origin 

 of which the Norman seemed to have entirely forgotten in his 

 efforts to secure wealth of detail, and make any natural form 

 bend and shape itself to his requirements. In this font, there- 

 fore, we have at the top of the bowl a cable; this looks like 

 Norman work. Round the base of the bowl are curious well- 



Fig. I. — Font at Winster. 



rounded leaf forms, having just that touch of nature about 

 them which suggests Transitional-Norman work; on the left of 

 fig. I is a panel filled with foliage, leaves and buds, which is 

 distinctly Early English in style; on the right of fig. i and left 

 of fig. 2 are panels of what is usually called "Black-letter." 

 Black-letter was the name given, as late as the seventeenth 



