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THE OLD CHURCHES OF WIRRAL legists that the pedestal is not so old as the bowl. After that, the Gothic modes resulted in the more beautiful shapes that are seen in the xnith, xivth and xvth century fonts at Shotwick, Neston and Woodchurch respectively. It is indeed surprising that so many fonts escaped the destruction of the Reformation days, for many a churchwarden of that period endeavoured to prove the soundness of his Protestant principles by smashing the font and substituting a basin for it, so that the practice of such substitution had to be forbidden. Thus Elizabeth in 1561 directed " that the font be not moved from the accustomed place, and that in Parryshe churches the Curates take not upon them to conferre Baptisme in Basens but in the font customablye used." During the Commonwealth fonts were frequently replaced, and many a parish register records such an entry as "bought a bassin to cristen the children which cost three shilling sixpence." But with the Restoration the font came into its own again. The attempt to attach an elaborate symbolism to the design of fonts is now deprecated. Thus the octagonal font, such as those at Shotwick and Woodio8
THE OLD FONTS OF WIRRAL church, was stated to embody the fact that our Lord rose from the grave eight days after the crucifixion, and doubtless the emblems of the Passion which surround Woodchurch font would give colour to this view in the eyes of many people. Another theory is that, since the old world and the first man were created in seven days, the new world of grace and regeneration and the new man must have been created on the eighth day, of which facts the eight-sided font is the outward symbol. Circular fonts again are held to symbolise the idea that in baptism imperfect man is made perfect. But so many six or seven-sided fonts, and oval fonts exist, as well as other forms, that none of these theories are now regarded as tenable. The surviving fonts in Wirral may now be described in detail, placing them as far as possible in the order of their antiquity. Of these Eastham would appear to come an easy first, as it has been pronounced by some experts to be possibly even pre-Conquest in date. Fonts would appear to have existed from the ixth century, though not in churches, and such as are believed to survive are of the type of that 109
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