Denston / Damardestuna / Danerdestuna / Denerdiston
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Results: 19 records
B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
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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
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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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 - monument - detail
Scene Description: bagged cadavers: male and female
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view of church interior - monument - detail
Scene Description: monument with bagged cadavers: male and female
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: misericord
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: One on each side of the base stem
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan Semmens, [2002?]
Image Source: digital photograph www.sillysuffolk.co.uk/jtm/denston.htm
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00743DEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-29
Font Date: ca. 1475-1480?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: Great Glemham, Woodbridge
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: Interesting wood carving at the pew ends and on the misericords of the choir-stall.
Church Address: Water Ln, Denston, Newmarket CB8 8PP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7815 441304
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A143 Bury to Haverhill road, just E of Wickhambrook
Historical Region: Hundred of Risbridge
Additional Comments: damaged font: the Reformation/Rebllion iconoclasts damaged the figures/scenes
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 333826 5780156
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.146872, 0.571294
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 48.74″ N, 0° 34′ 16.66″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Aubigny stone (imported from Normandy)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 200 fn3
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 346
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982, p. 68, 85
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 59
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. 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, p. 77, 143, 304 (many others throughout)
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]