Dalton-in-Furness / Daltune

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coat of arms - Furness Abbey

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Charles M Jopling's Sketch of Furness and Cartmel (London: Whittaker & Co., 1843), p. 32 [www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/jp1e07.htm] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches

Scene Description: much eroded now but the arch-heads appear to be trefoiled

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Dalton in Furness Church Cumbria - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Dalton in Furness Church Cumbria - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16

Scene Description: deeply carved but badly eroded now

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Dalton in Furness Church Cumbria - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: a number of them; they may have been painted or carved originally

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Dalton in Furness Church Cumbria - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2005 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/618414] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Dalton in Furness Church Cumbria - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: the large shield on the east side of the basin charged with the arms of the Abbey

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Dalton in Furness Church Cumbria - St. Mary/index.htm] [accessed 5 November 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01161DAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Market Place, Dalton-in-Furness LA15 8AZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1229 462526

Country Name: England

Location: Cumbria, North West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A590-A595 crossroads, 6-7 kms NE of Barrow-in-Furness

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle

Historical Region: Hundred of Amounderness -- formerly Lancashire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Dalton [-in-Furness] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SD2374/dalton-in-furness/] [accessed 5 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Raines' annotated edition of Gastrell's 1717 'Notitia cestriensis' (1845- ) has an entry for Dalton's church: "The Font is curious, and contains on it the arms of Furness Abbey." The entry for this Dalton in Whitaker (1823) uses the same adjective as Raines to describe it: "The font alone has been curious. It consists of sixteen? angles, and is surrounded by an inscription in two lines in the late black letter, which the loose and crumbling texture of the stone has unfortunately rendered illegible. The arms of Furnes Abbey, however, which it bears, suuficiently prove at whose expense it was erected." An extract from 'Mannex's directory of Furness & Cartmel', of 1882, on the church of St. Mary, reads: "The first written evidence of its [the church's] existence occurs in a donation of the vicarage to William de Horhampt, by the Abbot and Convent of Furness, between 1138 and 1200 A.D. [...] Within the church a massive old stone font has been preserved, having on one of its shields the armorial emblazonments of the Abbots of Furness and an inscription which is now illegible. This venerable relic stood for some tinge in the churchyard, exposed to the wasting effects of the elements and the Vandalism of an ignorant peasantry, until the Rev. Mr. Morgan, the present vicar, procured its removal into the interior." [source: transcription by Phil Stringer, in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/DaltoninFurness/StMary.shtml] [accessed 1 October 2010]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, bearing the arms of Furness Abbey. In the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914): "The font is a relic of the old church, and is of late 15th or early 16th-century date, octagonal in shape and of red sandstone. It is very much weathered, and has two blank shields with quatrefoils above on each face, except on the east side, where there is a larger single shield with the arms of Furness Abbey." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD2258073886] notes: "Church on site of earlier church. 1882-5. By Paley and Austin. [...] C14 font beneath tower with crozier on shield and 7 pairs of shields on the other sides."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.1549, -3.187

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 9′ 17.64″ N, 3° 11′ 13.2″ W

UTM: 30U 487788 6000772

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (red)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: [illegible]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-10-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823