Dean nr. Bedford / Dena / Dene / Over Dean / Upper Dean

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LB01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/PhotoFrames/Churches/BDFUpperDeanAllHallowsFont_2.html] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/PhotoFrames/Churches/BDFUpperDeanAllHallowsFont_2.html] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: ca. 1820 (?)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedfordshire County Council, 2015

Image Source: B&W reproduction of a watercolour of Dean church of about 1820 in former County Archivist Chris Pickford's series of Bedfordshire Historical Record Society (1994, vol. 1: 73) [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/UpperDean/DeanChurchRepairsAndAlterations.aspx] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' church, Upper Dean. The oldest part of the church is the C13 chancel arch. Most of the rest of the church is C14."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4513389] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/PhotoFrames/Churches/BDFUpperDeanAllHallowsFont_2.html] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10629DEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows']
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: High Street, Dean and Shelton, Bedford Borough PE28 0ND
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 22 km N of Bedford, towards the county border with Northamptonshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Stodden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, towards the W end, opposite the S doorway
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photograph of this font
No entry for this Dean found in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Dean was granted by Alice de Clermont to the Knights Hospitallers in the 12th century. [...] The 13th-century chancel arch is the oldest part of the building, but the plan of the chancel and nave is probably at least as early. [...] The font, which is in the south aisle, has an octagonal bowl panelled with quatrefoils, resting on an octagonal base with leaves carved on each side, and is of the 14th century." Pevsner (1968) notes: "Octagonal, Perp, with the usual quatrefoils, but unusual big single flowers on the base." Octagonal wooden cover with moulded sides appears modern. Old metal staples remain on at least one of the sides of the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2969, -0.4664
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 48.84″ N, 0° 27′ 59.04″ W
UTM: 30U 672766 5797084

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with graded moulding on the sides; metal decoration and ring handle atop; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968