[Low Bentham Font: Designs for water supply]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1889
Maker: William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931)
Dimensions:
Image: 321 x 405 mm (32.1 x 40.5 cm)
Sheet: 321 x 405 mm (32.1 x 40.5 cm)
Medium: Pencil, red and blue pencils, pen and black ink on paper.
Object number: F.68.1
DescriptionDesigns for the water supply to the Font at St. John the Baptist Church, Low Bentham, Lancaster. This sheet shows a number of varying views and sketches detailing a rather complex mechanism for drawing water into the Font through a "simple pipe" into a "glass globe" which would be "nearly a sphere". 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".
