Ashchurch

Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018

CC-BY-SA-2.0

Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5856264] [accessed 4 February 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas, Ashchurch. The South door - a Norman arch above and a 14th century doorway below with a heavily damaged stoup to the right."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5856254] [accessed 4 February 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wayland Smith, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2010 by Wayland Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4495853] [accessed 4 February 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas, Ashchurch. The nave, Looking East. The two-tone font is unusual with a 14th century pedestal and a 16th century bowl."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5856264] [accessed 4 February 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas, Ashchurch. The nave, looking West. The Arms of George I hang above the tower arch."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2018 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5856478] [accessed 4 February 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 13314ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury GL20 8JZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1684 293729
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A46, E of the M5, 5 km E of Tewksbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury, lower division
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [pedestal and plinth] -- 16th century[basin and pillar] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
No individual entry found for Ashchurch in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "Ashchurch church, first recorded c. 1145, [...] was originally a chapel of ease belonging to Tewkesbury Abbey [...] The earliest part of the church is the south wall of the nave, which was built in the later 12th century. [...] The font has a plinth and pediment of the 14th century, and a pillar and bowl of the 16th. [...] Cf. 'Glos. fonts', Trans. B.G.A.S. xxxix. 69–70." Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Plinth and pedestal C14; stem and plain octagonal bowl C16." [NB: we have no information on the font from the mid-12th century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.99877, -2.1071
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 55.57″ N, 2° 6′ 25.56″ W
UTM: 30U 561299 5761278

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002