Ansley / Hanslei
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/tags/ansley/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail
Scene Description: north-side impost: the haloed figure in the centre is being attacked by a dragon (left) and a lion (right) -- probably from the same date as the font fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/tags/ansley/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: this view from inside the chancel shows partially the carved impost of the northern side of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/tags/ansley/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/tags/ansley/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/tags/ansley/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12203ANS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: [originally from the Church of St. Theobald and St. Chad??]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the Church of St. Theobald and St. Chad?
Church Address: Ansley, Warwickshire CV10 0QR, UK
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4114, W of Nuneaton, and now practically a suburb of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Coleshill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Hemlingford
Additional Comments: damaged font / broken font / recycled font: used as planter/flower-pot / abandoned font / disused font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Ansley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2991/ansley/] [accessed 28 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwickshire, 1947), in a description of Ansley Hall, notes: "In the grounds of the modern house next south [of the 'Orangery' building] are several fragments of carved masonry, from Caldecote Church [...] and some broken scraps of a 12th-century round font bowl. The complete lower part of the bowl, used as a flower-pot, shows the shfta of arcade ornament around the side, and the two or three other pieces show that the arcading with round heads contained carving, possibly human figures". Later in the same source the present font at Ansley St. Lawrence's is described as modern. This new font is octagonal con carved panels and is located at the west end of the nave, north side. [NB: the church in Caldecote is dedicated to St. Theobold and St. Chad]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/], for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 596736 5821000
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.530502, -1.573941
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 49.81″ N, 1° 34′ 26.19″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.