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tween two nave piers. The typical signification of proximity to a doorway, entrance into the Church by Baptism, is well known. If a Font is found anywhere eastward of the centre of the nave it is almost sure to have been moved from its original place. At Milton near Cambridge, it is against the channel arch and appears long to have occupied that unusual position.5 The octagonal form is said to symbolize REGENE-RATION, because seven days created the old world. and the man of sin, the eighth day the new man of grace and salvation. We may here notice that singular and interesting type of Baptism, the Salamander; usually represented on Fonts as a lizard or serpent-like animal. They are by no means of common occurrence. We may mention instances at Sale-hurst, Sussex; Norton and Youlgrave, Derbyshire; Bridekirk, and Dearham, Cumberland; Winchester Cathedral, and perhaps Sculthorpe, Norfolk. This creature typifies Baptism with the Holy Ghost and with Fire." The shape of the interior, or aperture, is almost always circular, irrespectively of the external form of the bowl. A very few foliated bowls occur, as at Wellow, Somerset, and Lenton, Nottinghamshire; an idea perhaps derived from the orifices of piscina. No example of an octagonal bowl has come to our knowledge, except those of Lanteglos, Cornwall, and Yate, Gloucestershire. Square apertures are not very uncommon in Norman Fonts." For the diame-

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     St. Philip, Bristol.-Thornbury.-W terleigh.

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