A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 129
tions, see underJimd, Cusp, Clear-story, ])o<trway.~] Font (Lat. FonR— a spring), thevessel which eon-tains the conse-crated water to beused in baptism.Ancient fonts werealways large enoughto allow of the im-mersion of infants,the hollovv basinusually being abouta foot or rathermore in depth,… … Mildreds. CjLQtcrburj. JFant—ifrennascm. of the basin through which the water can tie allowedto escape. By a constitution of Edmund, Archbishop ofCanterbury (a.d. 1236), fonts were required to be coveredand locked; at that period the covers are likely, ingeneral, to have been little more than flat…
