Ampney Crucis
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01028AMP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Holy Rood Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes about the possible location of the old base]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km E of Cirencester off the A417
Additional Comments: altered font: base used now as well-cover?
Font Notes:
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Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Plain Norman cylindrical bowl with a roll at the top. C19 octagonal stem, perhaps replacing an earlier one now used as a well-cover in the churchyard."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, plain and round ; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 140