The Old English or ‘Black-letter’ as used on monumental brasses, in stained glass windows, and for similar purposes; also, in a condensed form, as a modern printing type.
1684. Progress 1st Dk. Beaufort, 9. The inscription following in church text bordering its edge: Here lyeth, [etc.].
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 641. All the varieties of church-text, German-text, Gothic, and Elizabethan.
1884. Messrs. J. Parker & Co., Spec. of Type, 16. Two line English Church Text, [etc.].
