Denton nr. Harleston / / Dentuna

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/denton/denton.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15019DEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Denton Road, Denton, Norfolk IP20 0AA

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km ENE of Harleston

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Earsham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Denton in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM2788/denton/] [accessed 23 July 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "This church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who had her image in the chancel, with a light burning before it. Domesday of Norwich tells us, that it was valued at 36 marks, that the rector had a house and carucate of land [...] The Church, chancel, two isles, and north porch, are leaded; the north vestry is down. At the west end stands a low square brick tower, in which there are three bells". Blomefield (ibid.) names as first recorded rector here "Will. de Brehull, chaplain to King Edw. I. who granted a prohibition in the 31st year of his reign, that no one should molest him for non-residence" [the 31st year of Edward I's reign would be 1303]. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, with shields in quatrefoils". Illustrated in Knott (2006). The basin has thick round mouldings at the upper rim and lower side; the octagonal stem has trefoiled arches or windows on the sides; the lower base is moulded. Two-step plinth, part of which is modern. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and and cross finial; 19th-century? [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.436811, 1.362146

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 12.52″ N, 1° 21′ 43.73″ E

UTM: 31U 388662 5810885

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-22 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999