Dalton-le-Dale
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 12 February 2010 by Andrew Curtis [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1706642] [accessed 5 November 2018] Source caption: "The church has mainly C13 features with extensive restoration by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1907".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Curtis, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 February 2010 by Andrew Curtis [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1706642] [accessed 5 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02048DAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 17th century, Decorated? / Restoration?
Cognate Fonts: Font at Seaham
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 5 St Cuthberts Terrace, Dalton-le-Dale, Seaham SR7 8QX, UK
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1285, E of the A19, 11 km S of Sunderland, near the sea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Dalton-la-Dale in the Domesday survey. Mackenzie (1834) writes: "The fons is a circular stone basin, resting on a plain round pillar; the rim ornamented with quatrefoils." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Pevsner (1983), however, notes: "Twins at Seaham and Dalton-le-Dale look more C17 than medieval", and describes the font as: "round stem and cup-shaped bowl with a band of four-petalled flowers round the top (cf. Seaham)." The entry for this church in Histocir England [Listing NGR: NZ4079748034] notes: "Church. Romanesque with mainly C13 features. Extensive restoration by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1907 [...] Late medieval round font with floral border on replaced stem."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 604934 6076596
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.8255, -1.3666
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 49′ 31.8″ N, 1° 21′ 59.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 198
- Mackenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county palatine of Durham: comprehending the various subjects of natural, civil, and ecclesiastical geography, agriculture, mines, manufactures […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1834, vol. 2: 371
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, County Durham, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983, p. 26, 138