Denston / Damardestuna / Danerdestuna / Denerdiston

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Image Source: digital image of a 29 July 2000 photograph by BSI

B02: sacrament - extreme unction

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B03: sacrament - eucharist

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B04: sacrament - penance

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B05: sacrament - confirmation

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B06: sacrament - baptism

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B07: sacrament - marriage

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B08: sacrament - holy orders

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BU01: angel - showing wings - 8

Image Source: digital image of a 29 July 2000 photograph by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8

Scene Description: One on each side of the base stem

Image Source: digital image of a 29 July 2000 photograph by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: bench-end

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: bench-end

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: misericord

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view of church interior - monument - detail

Scene Description: monument with bagged cadavers: male and female

Image Source: digital image of a 29 July 2000 photograph by BSI

view of church interior - monument - detail

Scene Description: bagged cadavers: male and female

Image Source: digital image of a 29 July 2000 photograph by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph www.sillysuffolk.co.uk/jtm/denston.htm

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00743DEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Water Ln, Denston, Newmarket CB8 8PP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7815 441304

Country Name: England

Location: Suffolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A143 Bury to Haverhill road, just E of Wickhambrook

Historical Region: Hundred of Risbridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Date: ca. 1475-1480?

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: Great Glemham, Woodbridge

Church Notes: Interesting wood carving at the pew ends and on the misericords of the choir-stall.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Denston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7652/denston/] [accessed 12 April 2023]; they mention neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in Parker (1855) [under 'Denerdiston'] and in Cautley (1949). Studied and described in Nichols (1994). Octagonal font of the Seven-sacrament group; the stone identification as being imported from Normandy is by Cautley; the scenes represented on the basin sides are: 1)Crucifixion; 2)Extreme Unction; 3)Eucharist; 4)Penance; 5)Confirmation; 6)Baptism; 7)Matrimony; 8)Holy Orders. There is an angel with open wings at each corner of the unbderbowl; the stem of the base has blank trefoil arches; the square plinth is short and totally plain. Noted in Betjeman (1958). Fully illustrated in Knott (2007?), who writes: "Simply stunning ... Suffolk's most perfectly preserved Seven Sacraments font". Noted and illustrated also in Aidan Semmens' web site [www.sillysuffolk.co.uk]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.146872, 0.571294

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 48.74″ N, 0° 34′ 16.66″ E

UTM: 31U 333826 5780156

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Aubigny stone (imported from Normandy)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*

Basin Depth: 34 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 36 cm*

Basin Total Height: 58 cm*

Height of Base: 53 cm*

Height of Central Column: 34 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 36 (tall) x 31/32 (wide) cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 111 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 120 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 77 x 84 cm* (min.&max. diagonals of the octagon)

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, with a handle

REFERENCES

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2005-03-05 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855