Aymestrey No. 1 / Aymestry / Elmodestreu
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Results: 8 records
view of church exterior - northeast end
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist and St Alkmund, Aymestrey. Norman origins are evident in the North wall of the chancel. The Norman window is constructed from tufa."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4330139] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Lord, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2013 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3381734] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Catterall, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2006 by Phil Catterall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219790] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/433003] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church interior - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis and chancel
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist and St Alkmund, Aymestrey. The very fine rood screen of the 16th century, tastefully restored in the 19th century by Thomas Nicholson."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/432995] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, south side, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy Doman, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2008 by Andy Dolman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/915937] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of font and cover
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: at the bottom end of the medieval stem; the resto fthe font is modern
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09745AYM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [stem of the base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Alkmund
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W of the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist & St. Alkmund
Church Address: A4110, Aymestrey, Leominster HR6 9SU, UK
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A4110, 10 km NW of Leominster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Leominster
Additional Comments: composite font (only the stem of the base is original) -- disappeared font? (the fonts of the two churches inferred in the Domesday survey)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Aymestrey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO4265/aymestrey/] [accessed 17 May 2018], both in the lordship of Queen Edith in 1066; the first had 6 priests in it, the second had two priests in it; although there is no church mentioned in the survey there must have two there. The inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: 10) reports: "Font: cylindrical stem, 12th or 13th-century, bowl modern." A font-cover is noted in Howard & Crossley (1919). The font is noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "Both the bowl and the base are modern but the cylindrical stem of grey sandstone is of late 12thc. date. It has a double roll moulding at the bottom."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 510713 5792378
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.28166, -2.84296
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 16′ 53.98″ N, 2° 50′ 34.66″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: [modern]
Basin Exterior Shape: modern
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.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, vol. III: p. 10
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 27