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DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



but little to bridge over this gulf, so here we get a series of 

 fonts of a style which no Norman could have foreseen would, 

 to a certain degree, evolve itself from his work. 



The majority of these Early Enghsh fonts in Derbyshire 

 are mere copies of the beautiful clustered shafts of the church 



F'ig. 5. — Font at Norton. 



builders, of an inverted bell shape. Architecturally and 

 artistically the specimen at Ashbourne is the finest, but the 

 greatest interest attaches to that at Norton, which will be 

 described first. 



NORTON. Fig. 5. 

 This specimen does not quite come up to that at Ashbourne 

 in architectural merit, owing to the octagonal plan of the 



