Darley Dale No. 2 / Darley / Dereleie

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: chiefly trefoiled arches and shapes

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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symbol - shield - blank - 4

Scene Description: one on every other side of the octagonal basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: chiefly trefoiled arches and shapes

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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Christ - monogram - IHS - in tracery

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02082DAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 1998-07-17

Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Post-Reformation

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: tracery motifs similar to those on the font at Hartington

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N side of the nave, E end

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena

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

Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

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 Notes: Click to view

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. Bond (1908) dates this font to the post-Reformation period and calls it one of the better pseudo-Gothic horrors whose mason would have been put in the stocks by any Christian parish in the 15th century. Pevsner (1978), however, seems to accept at face value: "octagonal, Perp[endicular], with tracery motifs similar to Hartington." On-site notes: basin sides decorated ornamented with blank shields and gothic ornamental motifs; looks modern; the dating of this work needs to be checked in the church records; there are marks in the rim indicating an earlier lid cover. [cf. Index entry for Darley Dale No. 1 for an earlier Norman basin in he same church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 593417 5891306

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.162919, -1.602708

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base

Rim Thickness: 8.5 - 12 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 70-76 cm

Basin Depth: 27 cm

Height of Basin Side: 45 cm

Basin Total Height: 75 cm

Height of Base: 28 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: on at least one panel of the underbowl

Inscription Text: "IHS"

Inscription Source: Images area

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 43, 267 and pl. on p. 276
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 164, 237