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fonts: Either baptismal fonts, used in a religious rite, in wich case a font is a sort of stone basin, or typefaces, used to encode a script or alphabet or writing system.

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4.—9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey.

Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Today called Battle Abbey. Someone made a font from a Dover reprint of this alphabet—Rob Anderson, I think. There is no coyright statement on the font, which was probably originally a PostScript Type [...]

Keywords: initials, alphabets, lettering, fonts, typography

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-03

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The Font, Winchester Cathedral

Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Note to searchers: this is a baptismal font made of stone. (From a Photograph by H. W. Salmon) “A feature more specially characteristic [of the county of Hampshire] is to be found in the remarkable se [...]

Keywords: christmas, fonts, monuments, churches

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-02-16

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1313.—Font in East Dereham Church, Norfolk

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Today it’s called East Dereham. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and dates from the Norman period (11th or early 12th Century). The Seven Sacrament Font shown here was made in 1488. The eigh [...]

Keywords: fonts, churches, sculpture

Places shown: East Dereham; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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