DERBYSHIRE FONTS. 55 



There are several other Norman fonts which merit brief 

 mention, but are not worth illustrating. 



Pentrich. 



Bell-shaped bowl, with shallow round arcade; cut with date 

 1662, no doubt the year in which it was restored to the 

 church. The base is modern and ugly. 



Hognaston. 



A neat round font ; very shallow, well cut with arcade. Now 

 mounted on a thin pedestal of three engaged shafts, in which 

 it looks anything but dignified. 



Bradbourne. 



A good type of font, of which only the bowl remains ; cut 

 with usual arcade. 



Ockbrook. 

 A specimen somewhat resembling that at Somersall Her- 

 bert. 



Darley Dale. 



A fairly plain specimen with peculiar depressions in the 

 bowl. Was for many years lost to the church, but finally 

 recovered.* 



Staveley. 



A peculiar late Norman font. Has a circular bowl at top, 

 which is, lower down, chamfered to form a square ; supported 

 on four tiny angle shafts and large central one. On one corner 

 of base of bowl is carved a king's head or, at any rate, a 

 crowned head. 



The following is, I believe, a complete list of the Norman 

 fonts which now remain to guide the archaeologist in ascer- 

 taining the approximate date of the foundation of many of 

 our Derbyshire churches. 



* See page 34 of this volume. — Editor. 



