Ansley / Hanslei

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

human figure?

Scene Description: perhaps human figures in the arches [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - west tower

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

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 east

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

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

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 12203ANS

Church/Chapel: [originally from the Church of St. Theobald and St. Chad??]

Church Location: Ansley, Warwickshire CV10 0QR

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

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

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/], for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.530502, -1.573941

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 49.81″ N, 1° 34′ 26.19″ W

UTM: 30U 596736 5821000

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: fragments

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.