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A leading conservation group is gearing up for a head to head confrontation with a Hampshire rector and his church wardens in a court battle to save an ornate 134-year-old Victorian font possibly ...
who had granted a faculty to replace a Victorian font (pictured) in St Peter’s, Shipton Bellinger, with a new, smaller font made of Purbeck stone. The church is Grade II listed, and the font was ...
The rotary press and wood pulp paper made printing cheaper and faster, giving people who didn’t have the opportunity before better access to books. “What I really wanted to focus on was all the ...
Through its more than 350 pasted-down items relating to 50 printing firms and around 350 specimen woodcuts, the collection offers a comprehensive view into a provincial Victorian printing office. The ...
THE font where a famed Victorian County Durham poet is said to have been baptised could have been installed in the church during the 20th century, it has emerged. Poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning ...
who had granted a faculty to replace a Victorian font (pictured) in St Peter’s, Shipton Bellinger, with a new, smaller font made of Purbeck stone. The church is Grade II listed, and the font was ...