Doveridge / Dubrige / Dvbrige
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: re-cut [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2019 by SMacB, in Waymarking [https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/aafc1c6b-e70e-410f-a525-3ba7f137474e_l.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "A view of the church from a path that runs down the hill to the River Dove and the suspension bridge."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malcolm Neal, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 15 June 2022 by Malcolm Neal [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7201335] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: "Font, circular bowl on a cluster of shafts, probably C13 but completely recut. C18 cover" [source: Historic England [Listing NGR: SK1138334103]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SMacB, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2019 by SMacB, in Waymarking [https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/aafc1c6b-e70e-410f-a525-3ba7f137474e_l.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01562DOV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Church Patron Saints: St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Location: Mill Ln / Church Ln, Doveridge, Ashbourne DE6 5NP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7943 348004
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located S of the A50 [aka Doveridge Bypass], 3-4 km E of Uttoxeter, about 30 km SE of Stoke-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Appletree [Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [re-cut], Early English [altered]
Church Notes: pre-Norman church noted in Domesday; present church late-12thC with later modifications; restored mid-19thC
There is an entry for Doveridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK1134/doveridge/] [accessed 28 July 2022]: it mentions a priest and a church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK1138334103] notes: "Parish church. Late C12, C13, early C14, C15. Restorations in 1840 and 1869 [...] Font, circular bowl on a cluster of shafts, probably C13 but completely recut. C18 cover." Round basin with mouldings on sides and underbowl, raised on clustered columns with capitals and bases, and a two-step quadrangular plinth. Round wooden cover with four scroll ribs around a carved central pivot; large metal Latin cross finial; 19th-century [cf. supra]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.904036,
-1.831658
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 54′ 14.53″ N,
1° 49′ 53.97″ W
UTM: 30U 578580 5862235
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
