SOME DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 



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The peculiar example of foliage on the north side (fig. 5), to 

 which reference has just been made, should be compared with 

 that on the Late-Norman font at Sapcote, Leicestershire, and 

 on that of the Early English period at Weston, Lincolnshire. 

 The design at Youlgreave seems to consist of a figure somewhat 



Fig. 4. — Fleur-de-lys on the East side. 



like an old-fashioned door or drop handle,* through which pass 

 two stems, the upper ends being slightly the larger and curved 

 outwards, giving the appearance of two modern hockey-clubs 

 back to back. From these stems, and below the door-handle piece, 



* Compare the handle on the old door of Denby Hall, illustrated on page 7 

 of this Vol.— Ed. 



