Ampney St. Mary
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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B01: design element - motifs - chevron or zigzag
Scene Description: a band of, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd., 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross in www.britainexpress.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - porch - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10230AMP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Wall paintings of interest
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A417, 6-7 km E of Cirencester
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Daubeny (1921). Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with a zigzag or chevron motif on the basin. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman, the bowl with a band of chevron moulding." Listed in Jenkins (2000) as a Norman font "decorated with zigzag". The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a band of large zig-zag motif between two mouldings, that occupies the whole side; it is raised on a plain cilindrical pedestal base and a circular lower base.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, for their photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with some decoration; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921, [plate]
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 204
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 80
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 143