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IScr&gsfjnx jfonts. 



By G. le Blanc Smith. 



EFORE continuing this series of short notices of 

 our county's fonts, I should like to state that there 

 should be two additions to the lists of fonts, given 

 under the head of that at Youlgreave, in the last 

 volume of this Journal. To the list of fonts having projections 

 add Sutton Bonington, Leicestershire (St. Michael's Church); 

 to the list of fonts carved with the salamander add Luxulyan, 

 Cornwall. 



The example at Sutton Bonington has three projections — 

 one for the missal-stand, the second for the taper, and the 

 third for the salt ; at least, these are the uses assigned to 

 them nowadays. For this information I am indebted to the 

 Rev. H. Eardley Field, of Ambergate. 



The font at Luxulyan, Cornwall, has the salamander like that 

 at St. Austell, in the same county, of which it is practically a 

 facsimile. 



Font at Somersall Herbert. 



This example is of the tub or vat-shaped variety, which 

 in itself might be taken as proof of its early date, but such 

 is not the case. Though the earliest form of Norman font 

 was of this shape, the example under notice is to be dated 

 as fairly late in the style, viz., circa 1150. The chief ornament 

 is the interlaced arcade, while other decorations are the curious 

 link pattern round the top and the circles therein interwoven. 



The workmanship of the link pattern is of a fairly good 

 character, but the arcading is of a very slovenly type both 



