A complete list as far as possible follows:—

BerkshireChildrey and Long-Wittenham, Clewer, Woolhampton, and Woolstone (Norman)
DerbyshireAshover (Norman)
DorsetshireWareham (Norman)
GloucestershireFrampton-on-Severn and Llancourt (similar, Norman)
Siston and Tidenham (Norman)
Gloucester Museum (Norman)
Clunbridge (1640)
KentBrookland (Norman), Chilham, and Eythorne (the latter dated 1628, a copy of a Norman original)
LincolnshireBarnetby-le-Wolde (Norman)
NorfolkBrundal, Hastingham (Norman)
NorthamptonshireWansford
OxfordshireClifton, Dorchester, Warborough, (Norman)
SomersetPitcombe
SurreyWalton-on-the-hill (Norman)
SussexEdburton and Piecombe (early English)
Parham (Decorated)
WiltshireChirton

Two of the French fonts are figured by Viollet-le-Duc,[16] that at Berneuil is of the twelfth century and very similar to that at Tidenham in Gloucestershire, with alternate arches occupied by figures and foliage.

At Lombez (Gers) is a very beautiful example, small and delicate, with two girdles of decoration, the upper row continuous foliage and figures, but made up of one scene, a man discharging an arrow at a lion and a basilisk, five times repeated; the lower row has sixteen quatre-foils with figures of four varieties repeated, these are the religious orders. It is remarked that the decorations were evidently “stock patterns” because the upper row is much older than the lower, which is of the late thirteenth century.

At Visine (Somme) is one of the fifteenth century with separate cast figures in sixteen niches.

At Bourg-Achard, in Normandy, is another lead font,[17] and one is also in the Museum of Antiquities in Rouen, this last has a long inscription and date, 1415. There is a cast of one of these fonts in the Trocadero collection in Paris.

At St. Evrouet-de-Monford (Orne) is another very similar to our Brookland font with Zodiac and Seasons.

In Germany, at Mayence, there is a very fine example of the fourteenth century. And in the South Kensington Museum is a copy of a small circular lead font in the Berlin Museum; this is cast in one piece, it stands on three lions’ feet and has two handles, around it is an inscription in Lombardic letters. It was presented to Treves by Bishop Baldani in the thirteenth century.


§ IX. OF INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.