Acton Turville / Achetone
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in www.allthecotswolds.com [accessed 18 March 2008]
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view of church exterior - north porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in www.allthecotswolds.com [accessed 18 March 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes in www.allthecotswolds.com [accessed 18 March 2008]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09877ACT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Acton Turville, Chipping Sodbury GL9 1HL , UK -- Tel.: 01454 219236
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B4039, N of the M4, 3-4 km S of Badminton, near the Wiltshire border, in S Gloucestershire, 28 km ENE of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Grimboldestou
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
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
There is an entry for Acton [Turville] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8080/acton-turville/] [accessed 20 June 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Kelly's Directory of 1856 mentions a font in this church. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) as a Norman tub-shaped font. Baptismal font of the Norman period noted and illustrated in John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 18 March 2008]; the basin is cylindrical at the upper part but the tapers off, all plain; it is raised on base that is cylindrical and plain except towards the bottom, where it splays out slightly. The plinth is narrow and polygonal, with a kneeling extension. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain, modern. There is evidence of damage on the upper rim of the basin, the sort related to the removal of the staples of the old cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.526369,
-2.277517
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 31′ 34.93″ N,
2° 16′ 39.06″ W
UTM: 30U 550120 5708609
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1856
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002