Darley Dale No. 1 / Darley / Dereleie

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human figure?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - south porch - tombstone - 3

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01549DAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen

Church Patron Saints: St. Helena

Church Location: Church Rd, Darley Dale DE4 2GG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1629 734257

Country Name: England

Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A6 [aka Dale Rd N], 8 km E of Bakewell (now a part of Matlock), in the Peak District

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby

Historical Region: Hundred of Blackwell

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, to the left of the S door

Century and Period: 12th century? [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a multiple-place entry for Darley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK2762/darley/] [accessed 3 February 2020]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Cox (1875-1877) reports "an old font, that formerly belonged to this church, and which now stands in the garden of Mr. Alfred Soreby, of the Rookery, Ashford-in-the-Water, was also described to us as being of the Norman period." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Norman font. Noted in Pevsner (1978): circular, Norman, small, with ribbed edges". On-site notes: only the basin is Norman; four figures once ornamented the sides but, today, it is impossible to discern them in any detail; central drainage hole in the basin well; base and plinth are modern. [cf. Index entry for Darley Dale No. 2 for a second font listed in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.162919, -1.602708

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 9′ 46.51″ N, 1° 36′ 9.75″ W

UTM: 30U 593417 5891306

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 4-8 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 42-43 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 52-58 cm

Basin Depth: 17 cm

Height of Basin Side: 30 cm

Basin Total Height: 30 cm

Height of Base: 48 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 93 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978