era, from West Deeping, Lincolnshire, is engraved in Simpson's Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts. Our own series contains the following Decorated. Rolvenden. Market Bosworth. Finchingfield. Shelfanger. Perpendicular. Stanton Harcourt. Stoke by Nayland. North Bradley. Wiston. Holy Trinity, Coventry. Fakenham. St. Goran. Bredon, Worcestershire; Catterick, Yorkshire; Herne, Kent; Ufford, Suffolk; South Kilvington, Yorkshire; Howell, Lincolnshire; furnish other examples. The correct taste generally shewn by the mediæval artists in ecclesiastical devices probably made them feel the unfitness of heraldry in this position. Certain it is, that in an age which gloried in that science, and when every church wall and window exhibited some badge of chivalrous distinction, comparatively few such devices were allowed to have place on Fonts. Admitting that heraldic bearings are unsuitable to such purposes as this, we doubt whether the custom, sparingly as it certainly was adopted, deserves the strong reprobation it has
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