A note on the inscribed font cover, Christ’s Chapel, Dulwich
John M. Blakey
The object viewed: some starting points
This beautiful copper cover, best seen in person, comes with memorable instructions on how the font is to be used. But that takes some explanation.
Photograph courtesy of Karla Blakey
The new Dulwich 400 (eds. Jan Piggott and Nick Black, 2019), celebrating the quatercentenary of the founding of Dulwich College, depicts the lidded font, close up in black and white (p. 35). Scratchings may be seen on the metal. Brian Green’s Dulwich: A History includes a colour shot of the font from the choir; a metallic sheen can be glimpsed in the distance. Torla Evans’ photograph, a close -up from the narthex looking eastward from the altar, appears in Mireille Galinou’s The Dulwich Notebook (p. 52). And A Guide to Christ’s Chapel of Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift at Dulwich ¸ again by Brian Green, brings immediacy and colour together in a picture on page ten. Careful scrutiny of the cover’s rim reveals what appear to be capital letters. They are not in our Roman alphabet, however; they are Greek.
So much for the briefest of bibliographies.
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