[Low Bentham Font: Design for font and canopy]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1889
Maker: William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931)
Dimensions:
Image: 332 x 244 mm (33.2 x 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 490 x 349 mm (49 x 34.9 cm)
Medium: Pencil, pen and black ink on paper
Object number: F.68.2
DescriptionDesign (front elevation) for both the font and font canopy for St. John Baptist Church, Low Bentham, Lancaster. This sheet shows details for font and canopy. These designs (see also F.68.1 and .3) were largely influenced by an Italian book made during the late Renaissance, the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili". It was a book which Lethaby described as "a collection of all the architectural wonders of the world".
