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Description
In every English parish church, taking centre-stage in the nave, stands a font. For centuries, every infant in the parish was considered to have been saved from damnation once christened and fonts, as the vessels for this crucial rite of passage, were a pre-eminent tool in the Church's fight against the Devil. Standing within the public space of the church – as with pews, rood screens and chantry chapels – fonts would have been paid for by the parishioners, and so the richness of their decoration was determined by the funds available and the prevailing architectural fashions of the time. Some of the more extravagant have elaborate multi-tiered covers, raised for use via ropes or chains and pulleys. In this introduction to English fonts, Matthew Byrne explores numerous examples in churches all over the country, highlighting the most notable fonts and explaining their changing decoration across the centuries.
Table of Contents
The Anglo-Saxon centuries 800-1066
The Norman Period 1066-1200
The Later Middle Ages 1200-1500
The Seventeenth Century
The Eighteenth Century
The Victorian Age
The late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first centuries.
Further Reading
Index
Product details
| Published | 20 Feb 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 64 |
| ISBN | 9781784423919 |
| Imprint | Shire Publications |
| Illustrations | Fully illustrated throughout |
| Dimensions | 210 x 149 mm |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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