Upper Denton / Over Denton
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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05508DEN
Object Type: Other
Object Details: capital, Roman
Font Century and Period/Style: 3th - 5th century [re-used], Anglo-Roman [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Font Location in Church: In a garden near the church [ca. 1908]
Church Patron Saint(s): [no dedication]
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Upper Denton is located 15-20 km EEN of Carlisle, just south of the River Irthing and Hadrian's Wall (access from the A69 - dir. Newcastle)
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Additional Comments: abandoned font / recycled font: believed to have been a Roman capital hollowed out to be used later as a baptismal font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as "an ancient font in a garden near the church, which looks like the capital of a Roman column hollowed to serve as a font." The object appears in Bond's illustration as monolithic and square, in poor state of repair, in the middle of a garden. [NB: Bond uses "Over Denton" in the text and caption, but he lists the location in the index separately as both "Over Denton" and "Upper Denton" without cross-reference]. Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists it as a baptismal font made of Roman dressed stone.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, ill. on p. 100
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 25
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 21