Aymestrey No. 1 / Aymestry / Elmodestreu

Results: 8 records

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: at the bottom end of the medieval stem; the resto fthe font is modern

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

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 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 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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 09745AYM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Alkmund
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist & St. Alkmund
Church Location: A4110, Aymestrey, Leominster HR6 9SU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A4110, 10 km NW of Leominster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Leominster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W of the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [stem of the base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.28166, -2.84296
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 53.98″ N, 2° 50′ 34.66″ W
UTM: 30U 510713 5792378

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. Accessed: 2018-05-17 00:00:00. 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
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919