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Painting, watercolour, Torpenhow Font, at St Michael and
All Angels Church, Torpenhow, Cumberland, by William Gershom
Collingwood, 1899.
Study of a font with carved decoration of interwoven arches
above interlacing bands within which are set trefoiled
twigs; the stem bears heraldic devices. The font is Norman.
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses,
Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by
Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal
1899; opposite p.271.
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