Anstey / Anstige / Ansty / Hanstige

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kev747, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by Kev747 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anstey_church.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12177LEI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bradgate Road, Anstey, LE7 7AF
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A46, NW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
The Ecclesiologist (vol. 5, no. 7, January 1846: 265) reports on the restoration of the chucrch of St. Mary at Ansty [sic], Leicestershire: "The old church of S. Mary, Ansty, Leicestershire, having been demolished, Messrs. Broadbent and Hawley, builders, were invited to turn architects, and to design a new 'Decorated' church to be built on the old site. They preserved the tower, the Romanesque font and the north door [...] the whole work is essentially modern in air and feeling." The font is noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. C13? Circular, with a double roll at the top." The parish web site [www.ansteyparishchurch.org.uk/] [accessed 7 February 2012] notes the font as being mentioned in Nichols (1804), and adds: "It is known that circa 1220 a chapel in Anstey was annexed to the Parish of Thurcaston. Although Anstey became a separate parish in 1867, the Rector of Thurcaston was still its Patron until a pastoral reorganisation in 2005-6. Little is known about the early building. [...] Except for the tower which is understood to be of Norman origin, this ancient structure was taken down in 1845 and the present larger building erected in 1846 [...] The font is ancient (possibly Norman, and possibly made from part of the pillar of an earlier church) with a modern oak cover."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 622015 5837255

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern / 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984