that he is intended for St. Lawrence. 
of a similar figure incised may be a carver’s trial-piece. 
At Dearham is a grave-slab with open twelfth century interlacing, 
rosettes and leaves, a helmeted head under an arch, and three figures hold- 
and Norman monsters. 
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The little stone with a rude sketch 
ing hands, one of whom, a 
man helmeted, has his foot 
in the mouth of a serpent. 
At one end of the slab is 
the word ‘ Adam,’ at the 
other are runes not satisfac- 
torily read. 
The font at Dearham 
has also open interlacing 
and a kind of chequer-work 
on the opposite side. On 
the other sides it has two 
monsters of a type not seen 
in earlier work, but per- 
haps intended for a griffin 
and a cetus, meaning the 
spiritual nature and the 
water of baptism as in 
several other fonts. This 
is a square font; that at 
Torpenhow is round, with 
late Norman interlacing 
and interlaced round arches. 
The Bridekirk font is 
a famous work of the 
twelfth century, noticed 
here as showing the out- 
come of earlier zoomorphic 
interlacing under new in- 
fluence from Italy. It 
was attributed by Prof. 
Stephens, not without some 
reason, to Richard of Dur- 
ham, a great artist living 
about 1120-80 whose por- 
trait is here, carved by 
himself as at work on the 
stone, with his signature in runes above, among floral scrolls of the period 
On one side is the picture of the Fall, Adam 
before the angel with the flaming sword and Eve embracing the tree of 
On the next is the baptism of Christ, and on the opposite side are 
a griffin and a cetus supporting a wheel or sun and framed in a pattern 
characteristic of twelfth century north Italian art, 
It is interesting to 
