Ampney St. Mary

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - chevron or zigzag
view of church exterior
view of church exterior - porch - detail
view of font
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 10230AMP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A417, 6-7 km E of Cirencester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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.
Church Notes: Wall paintings of interest
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.
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
Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002