Acton Beauchamp / Aactune / Acton, ultra Tamedam / Acrun / Actune / Hactona

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a piece on each of the sides of the basin underbowl

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles, Acton Beauchamp. The tower doorway, with part of a 9th century cross as a lintel."

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09712ACT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Acton Beauchamp, Herefordshire WR6 5AQ
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A465, 6.5 km SE of Bromyard
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree -- formerly in Worcestershire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
There is an entry for this Acton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6750/acton-beauchamp/] [accessed 22 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) reports the church here re-built in 1816, "but some of the old features have been retained, and portions of the old Norman work have been preserved. The font is modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO6794850310] (1967) reports a "Late C15 font" in this church. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes; "The plain chancel arch and the east wall of the nave [...] are the only surviving fragments in situ of a 12thcentury church. The rest of the building [...] appears to have been rebuilt at a comparatively modern period, the south doorway, which dates from c. 1200, being reset." A font here is described in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 1): "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded top, concave under side carved with large pateræ, plain stem and hollow-chamfered base, late 15th-century, much repaired in cement."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.01792, -2.7773
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 4.51″ N, 2° 46′ 38.28″ W
UTM: 30U 515282 5763055

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-10-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890