A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 46
opening ofthe bowl was almost al-ways circular, no matterwhat form the exterior might be. The orna-mentation varied ; sometimes it was geometrical,sometimes symbolical, often heraldic, and insome cases inscriptions were employed in adecorative way. The more usual mediaevalfonts consisted of three… … Font of Black Marble, at Nouvion-le-A^ineux, near Laon(Aisne), France; 12th Century. door the font was placed to its left, and there-fore nearer the west front; and this arrangementcontinues in modern times, except where a bap-tismal chapel exists. The modern font, as a56 H< a-
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