Title

New Font for Easton Church, near Winchester, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

New Font for Easton Church, near Winchester, 1850. Stone font for St Mary's Church, '...executed entirely by the hands of a lady, also resident in the parish. It is of Caen stone, the design being taken from the well-known old font in New Shoreham Church, which, bearing the characteristics of the late Norman, was appropriately selected for the model. It is 2 feet 9 inches square, and has a massive centre pillar and four spiral shafts; the sides have each a different pattern, deeply cut; the stopper is of bronze, in the form of a laten cross. The artiste of this valuable gift was employed somewhat less than twelve months in its completion; she determined that no other hands should share with her own the labour, and rejected, therefore, all aid, even in the mechanical part of excavating the basin or preparing the shafts for the chisel. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A34_117

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

48,2Mb (2,7Mb) / 16,5in x 11,3in / 4960 x 3397 (300dpi)

Keywords

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