l62 DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



This font at Norton is tlie only one in the fairly representa- 

 tive list illustrated by Paley, which has this dog-tooth. 

 ASHBOURNE. Fig. 6. 



This is a most beautifully designed, well-balanced example 

 of that type of Early English font which was derived from the 



Fig. 8. — Font at Kniveton. 



clustered columns — including base and capital — which were such 

 a successful and much admired feature of the churches of the 

 thirteenth century. 



Paley, in his Baptismal Fonts, gives a very bad illustration 

 of it, and, by way of description, proceeds to discuss the date 

 at which the church was dedicated to St. Oswald, i.e., May 8th, 

 1241. 



