Depden / Depdana
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/depden.htm] [accessed 1 June 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Depden St Mary’s church. The buttresses at the east end of the chancel have pinnacles which carry up to the roof-line. They were erected in the 14th c., but serve no real purpose. The shabby looking porch is the vestry and protects the beautiful Norman doorway at the west end of the nave. The 17th c. north porch is a simple structure. Two of the bells are 15th c. as is the tower which is heavily buttressed."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian S Pye, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2007 by Adrian S Pye [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2088092] [accessed 2 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Jones, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2006 by Bob Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/190436] [accessed 2 January 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 14761DEP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Depden, Bury Saint Edmunds IP29 4BU, UK -- Tel.: +44 1284 850 857
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off the A143, 8 SW of Bury St. Edmunds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Risbridge
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches, for his photograph of the modern font
There are two entries for Depden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7756/depden/] [accessed 2 January 2019], one of which reports "1 church. 0.2 church lands" in it. Cautley (1982) lists the font at Depden with a group of heraldic fonts of the 15th century but, as Knott (2008) suggests, the font is more likely to be much later, of the 18th century. The entry for this church in Listed British Buildings [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101031669-church-of-st-mary-depden] [accessed 2 January 2019] notes: "The earliest fabric is the C12 S door. [...] The church was restored in 1855 and 1866, and again after a fire in 1984 [...] An interesting and highly unusual octagonal stone font of the early C18 with armourial badges and one IHS panel in alternating carved relief and painted Rococo cartouches. Recoloured, but some original colour survives." [NB: the present church goes back to Norman times but we have no information on its medieval font].
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REFERENCES
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-01 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
