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secting arches, as at Sandridge, Hertfordshire, or other sculpture, as at St. Anne, Lewes, Witham on the Hill, and St. James Deeping, Lincolnshire, and usually raised on one or more circular steps. The octagonal or polygonal form is also of great antiquity; the Font at Wimpole, near Cambridge, is probably of Saxon date. Nevertheless either square or circular, or both combined, as at Cabourn, Lincolnshire, is the prevailing early form; and these shapes continued in general use throughout the Transition, and the latter even through the Early English period; after which the octagonal form became all but universal. Still, there are some few square Decorated Fonts, as at Newick, Sussex; and even Perpendicular, as at Bradfield and Lindfield, Suffolk. It is very common to find the three forms exhibited in the same Font; as a square bowl, a circular stem, and an octagonal plinth; or the same variety interchanged in position. Here the intentional difference of shape is obvious, and argues a degree of indecision in the use of any one rather than another. The octagon, however, is of comparatively rare occurrence in Fonts of the pure Norman style. It is common to find large cubical blocks, more or less adorned with sculptured decorations; perhaps some of these may have been dismounted from the stems which they originally had. The bowl of Fonts of all dates is usually formed of a single block. In early circular Fonts, lined with lead, we occasionally find, as at St. Martin's, Canterbury, many small stones put together; Stibbington.-Perranzabuloe. ⚫ Archæologia, vol. xvi. p. 335. West Haddon. 20