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St Leonard, Denton, Sussex

Location
(50°48′16″N, 0°3′48″E)
Denton
TQ 455 026
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Sussex
now East Sussex
  • Kathryn Morrison

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Feature Sets
Description

A heavily restored church comprising nave and chancel. It contains a Romanesque font.

History

Denton is not mentioned in DS.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The font closely resembles that of St Anne, Lewes, but is slightly smaller. The central band, carved with basketwork, is narrower in proportion to the other bands than on the Lewes font, and the carving overall is less regular. The font in East Dean church has top and bottom bands like those of Denton and Lewes, but the motif in the central band consists of interlocking circles.

Bibliography
M. F. Drummond-Roberts, Some Sussex Fonts Photographed and Described. Brighton 1935, 29.
M. A. Lower, 'On the Churches of Newhaven and Denton' Sussex Archaeological Collections 9, 1857, 89-95.
I. Nairn and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth 1965, 480.
A. K. Walker, An Introduction to the Study of English fonts with details of those in Sussex. London 1908, 40-41.