Dale nr. Derby / Dale Abbey / Deepdale / Depedale
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: abbey ruins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Grant Shaw, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2009 by Grant Shaw [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dale_Abbey_snow.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2015]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: abbey ruins attached to house
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2007 by Andrewrabbott [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dale_Abbey_-_2.JPG] [accessed 6 February 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Dale Abbey ca.1785
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Image Source: Image of "Joseph Wright of Derby. Landscape with Dale Abbey and Church Rocks. c.1785. Oil on canvas. 72.4 x 99 cm. Sheffield City Art Galleries, Sheffield, UK." in [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Wright_of_Derby._Landscape_with_Dale_Abbey_and_Church_Rocks._c.1785..jpg] [accessed 6 February 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05178DAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [formerly abbey church of Dale Abbey]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10-12 kms ENE of Derby just S of the A6096
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: Augustinian monks moved to Dale Abbey in 1162, soon thereafter followed by the Premonstratensians
The WEB site www.merseyside.com gives details of churches open in Derbyshire; among them is the church of All Saints, Dale Abbey, whose baptismal font "is the ancient font of the abbey". [cf. Index entry for Radbourne, Derbs., for a font and its ornate Jacobean cover claimed to be from this abbey church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.945,
-1.352
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 56′ 42″ N,
1° 21′ 7.2″ W
UTM: 30U 610734 5867423
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