drical stones, resembling a portion of a column, from which perhaps they were sometimes made, and placed without any intermediate support upon the ground; or worked in the shape of a clumsy vase or tub, as at Little Billing, Northampton, and West Putford; or mounted on a stein, as Chalk, Kent; sometimes quite plain, but more usually having a few broad and coarse annular base-Mouldings. An interesting example occurs at Scartho, Lincolnshire, where the tower is Saxon. It is shaped like a hand-bason and is placed on an irregular heptagonal plinth. Unhappily it is filled up with bricks and rubbish, and a small wooden pillar used for Baptism. Very frequently the underside of the bowl is bevilled away or rounded off to meet the stem; and this hemispherical form is extremely common in Norman Fonts, as at Cuxwold, Lincolnshire; Clipsham, Rutland; Heydon, Norfolk Laxton, Northamptonshire; Plymstock, Devonshire. Very many early cylindrical Fonts remain but they seldom bear any decisive mark of their date beyond their primitive shape or rude execution; though the remote antiquity of some of them at least cannot reasonably be doubted when we consider the arguments already alleged, and also the more definite character of Norman and later Fonts, to which these are evidently anterior in style. But many Fonts of undoubtedly Norman date consist simply of a low cylindrical stone, either plain, as at Gilling, Yorkshire, or enriched with an upper border, as at Holton-le-Clay, Lincolnshire, or inter- Lewes. Rothley.-Avebury.-Chelborough. Alphington.- Little Billing. 19
