Dacre / Dacor / Dacore

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - detail

Scene Description: fragment [shaft?] of the 10thC Dacre cross -- Calverley (1899) writes: "two men join hands in peaceful compact over a square font [...] standing on two short supports, and over them the sun-sign, or a three-limbed sign, is seen".

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Image Source: drawing by Calverley, in Calverley (1899)

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - detail

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Image Source: drawing by Calverley, in Calverley (1899)

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - detail

Scene Description: fragment [shaft?] of the 10thC Dacre cross -- notice the two men with their hands over a square object [font?] [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B. Keeling, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph in Senchus [http://senchus.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/the-monastery-at-dacre/] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - detail

Scene Description: fragment [shaft?] of the 10thC Dacre cross -- notice the two men with their hands over a square object [font?] [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B. Keeling, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph in Senchus [http://senchus.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/the-monastery-at-dacre/] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - detail

Scene Description: fragment of the 9thC church cross

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B. Keeling, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph in Senchus [http://senchus.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/the-monastery-at-dacre/] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Dacre churchyard. The four corners of the original churchyard (smaller than the present one) are marked by four medieval stone bears. They were studied by Chancellor Furguson in 1890, and he believed that they depict a legendary tale, which can be summarised by: bear sleeping, bear attacked by wild cat, bear shakes off cat, bear eats cat. The bear in this photo is the second in the sequence, but the cat has been worn away and we just see the bear looking over its shoulder."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Humphrey Bolton, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2006 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/279398] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Barton, 2011

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 Octubre 2011 by Jim Barton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2648233] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - west end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Barton, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 Octubre 2011 by Jim Barton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2648231] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: with a partial view of the churchyard, including one of the stone bears

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © mauldu, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2007 by mauldy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/563741] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Hall [www.davidhalllakedistrictwalks.co.uk/pages/DIRECTORY/CHURCH_DACRE.html] [accessed 26 July 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15923DAC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Dacre, Cumbria CA11 0HL
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km SW of Penrith
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 10th - 12th century, Medieval
Church Notes: church may have existed 9thC or 10thC, the date of the churchyard crosses here; present church originally 12thC (W tower Norman), with 13th and 15thC aisles;
Lewis (1848) writes: "A monastery existed here in the time of Bede; and at this place Constantine, King of Scotland, and Eugenius, King of Cumberland, placed themselves and their dominions under the authority of Athelstan" [ca. 894-939]. Calverley (1899), writing on the fragment of a 10th-century cross from Dacre, refers to one of the 'panels' on the surviving shaft: ""two men join hands in peaceful compact over a square font [...] standing on two short supports, and over them the sun-sign, or a three-limbed sign, is seen". Cox (1913) notes a square font in passim; is the cross carving the font he is referring to? Two fonts here are noted in David Hall [www.davidhalllakedistrictwalks.co.uk/pages/DIRECTORY/CHURCH_DACRE.html] [accessed 26 July 2014]: "The font of white limestone, set on a square base of red and grey sandstone, stands at the west end of the aisle. It was erected in 1865 by the then vicar, the Rev, Daniel Ace. T[he] [ancient font] nearby is possibly original to the church. It was returned to the church in 2001 having been for many years a garden ornament in Stainton and later in Penrith." The present font, octagonal with carved lower basin sides and underbowl, is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.631614, -2.839569
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 37′ 53.81″ N, 2° 50′ 22.45″ W
UTM: 30U 510356 6053811

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913