Dalbury

INFORMATION

FontID: 11556DAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SW of Derby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978