SOME DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 1 49 



has but a plain solid ledge, three-sided, flat, and pierced with 

 holes apparently for the reception of a reading-desk, book rest, 

 or image. The stoup at Youlgreave, as has already been 

 pointed out, is horseshoe-shaped, hollow, and drainless, besides 

 which, it is not lined with lead as is the interior of the font. 

 The font is engraved in Markland's Remarks on English 



+m*xmmm*m+m*m*m 





m^^^^m^s^^ddiiM 



Fig. 5. — Ornament on North side. 



Churches, p. 92; Viollet-le-duc's Glossary; Corblets Manual 

 D' Archeologic ; Bateman's Antiquities of Derbyshire, p. 241; 

 and in Dr. Cox's well-known Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. II., 

 P- 234. 



The original font of Youlgreave church, which was sup- 

 planted by this alien, was described by a visitor in 1827 as 



