Dean nr. Bedford / Dena / Dene / Over Dean / Upper Dean
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2015
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Results: 5 records
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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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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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 - 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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10629DEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows']
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, towards the W end, opposite the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: High Street, Dean and Shelton, Bedford Borough PE28 0ND
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 672766 5797084
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2969, -0.4664
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 17′ 48.84″ N, 0° 27′ 59.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 74