Ashton-under-Hill / Ashton under Hill / Essetone / Estone
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 2 February 2008]
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
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design element - motifs - leaf - 8
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
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view of church exterior - south view
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font is partially visible in the north aisle, east end
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 2 February 2008]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 2 February 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13335ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Barbara [formerly St. Andrew's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Barbara [formerly dedicated to St. Andrew]
Church Address: Elmley Road, Ashton under Hill, Evesham WR11 7SX, UK
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A46, 8 km SW of Evesham, 13 km NE of Tewksbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester [formerly in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol]
Historical Region: formerly in Gloucestershire -- Hundred of Tibblestone
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC(?) church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Ashton [-under-Hill] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9937/ashton-under-hill/] [accessed 4 February 2019], one of which reports a church and "0.75 church lands" in it. A font here is reported In Fryer (1908). Noted in The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968): "There was a church at Ashton by 1071 [...] The Norman south doorway is the earliest part of the fabric. [...] The octagonal 15th-century font is decorated with quatrefoils and has foliated pendants beneath the bowl." In Pevsner (1968): "Elaborate Perp[endicular] piece. Octagonal with fleurons in quatrefoils and leafy knobs coming out of the underside." In Brooks & Pevsner (2007). The font consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base; the sides of the basin have floral motifs inscribed in octafoils, within circular and square panels, the angles buttressed; very large leaves protrude at the underbowl chamfer; the sides of the pedestal base have trefoil arches or windows, the angles buttressed here as well. The lower base and plinth appear modern. Not so the wooden cover, crenellated at the octagonal base, a slightly concave pyramid with finial; 17th-18th century? [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11th-century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of Worcestershire Church Montages [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/], for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 568095 5765697
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.037702, -2.007243
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 15.73″ N, 2° 0′ 26.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 113
- Fryer, Alfred C., "The Gloucestershire fonts", 31(1908); 34(1911); 40(1917); 41(1918); 42(1920), Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1908, 1911, 1920, pp. 31 (277-281); 34 (195-207); 40(39-56); 41 (27-35); 42 (69-88).
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 72