Dalbury / Delbebi / Dellingeberie
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11556DAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Dalbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Dalbury
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: All Saint's Church, Dalbury, Ashbourne DE6 5BR, United Kingdom
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the A516, 10 km SW of Derby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Litchurch [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church in iy)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Dalbury [variant spellings] in the Domesday surve [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK2634/dalbury/] [accessed 22 June 2025], one of wich reports a priest and a church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "a fine stone font with a richly carved oak covering". White's directory for 1857 notes: "The font is of stone with a cover richly carved". Kelly's Directory for 1891 notes: "the font has a curiously carved cover", but does not mention the font itslef. The same is true of Pevsner (1978): "early C18 font cover" [NB: parts of the church go back to the 16th century or earlier]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Francis White & Co., History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Derby [...], Sheffield: Printed for the authors by James Ward [...], 1851, p. [185?]
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891, [?]
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50912] [accessed 7 December 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 162