Studio: international art (38.1906)

FIG. 7. RAIN-WATER HEAD DESIGNED AND

(HARBORNE HOUSE) EXECUTED BY

G. P. BANKART

wit, fonts of lead. I refer, of course, to the
material of which the actual body of the font is
made, not to its lining, which is quite usually of
lead. In the whole country not more than thirty
original fonts of lead are believed to exist, some
large counties—like Yorkshire, for instance—not
containing a single example on record. Kent
contains three, of which Brookland Church, in
Romney Marsh, as though the building were not
extraordinary enough on account of its conical
wooden campanile, contains one of the most

FIG. 5. RAIN-WATER HEAD DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
(KING’S SANATORIUM, BY G. P. BANKART

MIDHURST)

The simplest method is that where the entire
result is produced by casting in the bed of ordinary
local sand, which has first received the sunk im-
press of the relief pattern. Of this process the first
five illustrations and the last but one are examples.
The ninth, tenth and twelfth illustrations, on the
contrary, represent objects of which the whole of
the ornament is added after the work itself has

Recent Lead-JVork by Mr. G. P. Bankart

been made up into shape, by encrusting with
bright tin solder, a process in some sort analogous
to that of clay slip ornament in fictiles. The
remaining examples, namely the sixth, seventh
and eighth, represent a combination of both
processes, that is to say, that in these three cases
some details of the ornament are produced by
casting, the others by tin-soldering.

The first and third illustrations afford instances
of objects, which, though not indeed unknown in
ancient times, are, nevertheless, of sufficient rarity
to be noted as exceptional where they do occur, to

DESIGNED AND
EXECUTED BY
G. P. BANKART

FIG. 6. RAIN-WATER HEAD
IN LEAD, WITH LETTERING
IN TIN