Fonts of the Decorated period are commoner, but not so frequent as those of the preceding Norman or subsequent Perpendicular periods.
Fonts of the Perpendicular period are very common, and are generally raised upon steps and a lofty stem, which, together with the body of the font, are frequently richly ornamented with panelling.
Octagonal fontsare also known, though uncommon; hexagons are even less common, and pentagons very rare.
Few if any fonts survive older than the 11th century.
In the 14th and succeeding centuries octagonal fonts became the rule.
On the other hand, Norman fonts are very common, and are often the sole surviving relics of the Norman parish church.
One of the most elaborate of early fonts is that described by Anastasius in the Lateran church at Rome, and said to have been presented thereto by Constantine the Great.
Some of the best examples of "Norman" fonts in England (such as the notable specimen in Winchester cathedral) were probably imported from Belgium.
The fonts of this period, however, are as a rule devoid of interest, and, like most Perpendicular work, are stiff and monotonous.
This elaborate vessel was of course exceptional; the majority of early fonts were certainly much simpler.
Fonts early began to be decorated with sculpture and relief.
The leaden fonts which I have seen, have all been raised upon a basis of brick or stone, like this at Bourg-Achard, and are all of nearly the same pattern.
It gained immediate popularity and for more than two hundred years, either directly or through fonts based upon it, dominated the Greek printing of Europe.
The present volume is printed in a small round-faced gothic type, the second of the nine fonts which he used.
Stottesdon church has one of the finest Norman fonts in the county.
Returning from Woolstaston to Church Stretton, we pass by Womerton, where the older of the two fonts in Woolstaston church was found; and then, skirting the unenclosed uplands, we drop into the highroad at or about All Stretton.
Several instances of fonts having found their way from churches to private grounds have been made known during recent years, one being at Penrith, and others at Musgrave and Brough-under-Stainmore.
Some Norman fonts are round; more often, perhaps, they are of square form, sometimes profusely decorated with grotesque imagery, and supported by a central massive circular stem.
The Norman fonts were, as a rule, scooped out of a single stone, as we see, e.
A general statement that we have no Saxon fonts existing is valueless, and incapable of proof; and we are more inclined to agree with Mr F.
The most ancient form of fonts was octagonal, or tub-shaped, built like a tower, as described by St. Paulinus of Nola.
With a great company the Baths at Aix Were thronged, and soon before the holyFonts The Queen received the name of Juliane: Henceforth a Christian holding fast the Truth.
Several early fonts remain of Norman style, and even in some cases perhaps earlier.
Modern Roman Catholic fonts are now often constructed in two separate partitions, and this is said to be the origin of the plural fonts baptismaux, of such constant occurrence in France.
A study of fonts and their origin had qualified him in this particular subject.
In the study of my profession I was interested in the designing of fonts and baptisteries, and by a natural process I was led to investigate the history of baptism; and some of the arguments I then learnt up still remain with me.
Illustrated in the writer's Fonts and Font Covers, 296.
Every one interested in church architecture and sculpture will feel almost as much surprise as delight in Mr Bond's attractive volume on 'Fonts and Font Covers.
This book on 'Fonts and Font Covers' is a most valuable contribution to mediaeval study, put together in masterly fashion, with deep knowledge and love of the subject.
The finest collection of illustrations of fontsand font covers yet attempted.
These fonts are generally ornamented with rudely executed carvings, consisting of foliage and grotesque animals.
There are hexagonal fontsof Decorated date at Rolvenden, Kent, and Heckington, Lincs.
The font was required by the canon to be of stone, but there are a few Norman fonts made of lead, among them those at S.
It is doubtful if any fonts exist which can reasonably be supposed to be Saxon, although a few, like that at Little Billing, Northants, may possibly be of that era.
Early English fonts are very often circular, and sometimes square, and they are often supported in much the same way as the Norman ones.
Ancient fonts were always large enough to allow for total immersion, and our present custom of baptism by affusion, or sprinkling, is only permitted, not enjoined by the rubric.
It is an acknowledged fact that the black basalt fonts of Norman times were imported from Flanders.
There is no rule in this, but there are other examples in which small portions of fonts are picked out for significant decoration, and possibly on the side originally intended to be turned towards the door of the church, or the altar.
These eight fonts of type seem all the more unnecessary when we consider the trivial nature of the unknown printer’s works.
With this object in view, he cut several fontsof Round Gothic, one on Bourgeois and one on Brevier body, the smallest sizes of types made in the fifteenth century.
They began to print on a grand scale, making new fonts of Roman, Greek and Round Gothic types, enlisting the services of Bishop John Andrew as reader and corrector, and undertaking the publication of many large classical works.
The modern printer is at a loss to imagine why his unknown predecessor should have cut so many punches and made so many fontsof types with faces closely resembling each other, yet so unlike that they could not be used together.
The use of this metal in other type-foundries may be inferred from the sharpness, when new, of many fonts of early types.
It is not reasonable to suppose that two or three distinct fonts of type were made for no other purpose than the printing of four editions of this book.
Investigation of the fonts showed that the firm possessed the proper type.
Bobby, after a few further attempts to adopt the regulation fonts of type to its chase, had rather lost interest in it, but his new companions revived it.
At first they were elaborate, and included the big foot press and four fonts of type and three colours of ink and fixings innumerable.
Some were regular type-cases, plenished with glittering new fonts all distributed.
One mold may be used to cast, in succession, all the letters of a font of type, or it may be used to cast any number of fonts of different faces that may be made on the same body, by merely changing the matrices that form the face.
SMALL CAPS--A secondary set of capitals made for fontsintended for book work.
Miscellaneous faces used in small quantities are put up in fonts containing a certain number of each letter, the size of the font being designated by the number of capital A's and lower-case a's it contains.
What characters do fonts of advertising and jobbing type include?
Letters of this kind are common in italic and script fonts, and there are a few letters, like f and j, in some oldstyle roman fonts which have the tip of the letter overhang.
Fonts of these odd sizes may be sometimes found, and there has been a size of 15-point made, but little used.
Other fonts have been found in several of the subterranean chapels, among which is one in the Catacomb of Pontianus, hewn out of the solid tufa and fed by a living stream.
All their pictured representations of the rite indicate this mode, for which alone the early fontsseem adapted; nor is there any early art evidence of baptismal immersion.
Innumerable temples, Bhuddist and Hindoo, and mixtures of both, occupied hillocks, or were situated near the sacred fonts or groves with which the valley abounds, and which adds much to the beauty of its appearance.
In course of time the Spanish Church forbade the use of pilas made of glazed earthenware, and ordered their substitution by fonts of stone or marble.
Splendid examples of these Spanish fonts exist in various churches of Andalusia and in private collections.
In the first place his work showed great typographical excellence, with many fonts of handsome Gothic type and a lavish use of woodcut illustrations.
He caused Greek fonts to be cast, not inferior to those of the Venetian printers, and began to publish the Greek classics in beautiful editions.
Aldus also, though not the first to cast Greek type, gave his Greek fonts an elegance which was soon imitated, like the italic, by other printers.
Of four similar fonts on the Continent, that at Zedelghem, near Bruges, is most like the Winchester example, and also illustrates the same legend.
The material of which these fontsare made is a bluish-black calcareous marble, such as is still worked at Tournai in Hainault.
I have seen nofonts in the other churches I have entered.
It had no fonts that I could observe, but boasted of a gong in addition to the sonorous stones for summoning the faithful to prayers.
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