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resemblance is so striking that it may well have created the 

 idea that the font was Saxon. This figure is nimbed, and raises 

 both hands in blessing, and is considered by Dr. Cox to 

 represent St. Augustine. This saint is often represented by his 

 emblem of a heart, as one of the four doctors of the Church ; 

 sometimes as a bishop, before whom stands a child, nimbed. 

 and with a spoon in its hand. 



Face 5, Figs. 3 and 4, represents a figure with a scroll, 

 which might be any saint, and, in the case of face 6, St. John 

 the Baptist. 



Face 7, Fig. 4, might represent any saint in the Calendar, 

 and Dr. Cox considers face 8 (fig. 4) to be carved with a 

 representation of St. Chad. It shows an undoubted bishop. 



Mr. Rawlin's interpretation of these designs — read in the same 

 order as the foregoing — seem rather wild ; they are : 1 

 Abraham, 2 St. Peter, 3 Noah, 4 St. John, 5 St. Paul, 6 David, 

 7 Christ before Pilate, or Paul before Agrippa, 8 Pope, with 

 triple crown. 



Ballidon. 



This font is a curiosity, in fact one might almost term it a 

 freak. It is, however, another of the many examples of the 

 careless and little premeditated work of the designer's 

 drawings, in the Decorated period of English church architec- 

 ture. 



The shape is one which originated, in a really graceful form, 

 with the designers of Decorated times, and found much 

 favour in the eyes of ecclesiastical architects for a very con- 

 siderable period afterwards, lasting even into the debased and 

 miserable style — if " style " it can be called — which succeeded 

 the Reformation. 



This design is chalice-shaped, and should therefore be an 

 especially favourite one for the subject, as we thus get the two 

 Sacraments of the Anglican Church symbolized by utensils of 

 one shape. 



In executing the finer carved work on this font, the sculptor 

 evidently found it more convenient to work with the stone 



