Ampney Crucis

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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01028AMP

Church/Chapel: Holy Rood Church

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 6 km E of Cirencester off the A417

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes about the possible location of the old base]

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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."

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

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002