Ashton Keynes / Aesctun / Essitone

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding - 2

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design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the chevron pattern

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design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the chevron pattern

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design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: a row of palmettes hanging from a moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Duncan and Mandy Ball, 2000 [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_ak_in.htm] [accessed 10 August 2008]

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view of church exterior

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view of church exterior - northeast view

view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13682ASH

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Cross

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross

Church Location: Ashton Keynes, Swindon SN6 6NY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B4696, 6 km W of Cricklade, 8-9 km S of Cirencester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Cricklade

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwoc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Ashton [Keynes] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU0494/ashton-keynes/] [accessed 5 March 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Buck (1951) describes and illustrates a font basin of the late Norman period, ca. 1150-1200, "mounted on a later octagonal base"; Buck (ibid.) also notes that the rim "has been repaired". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, of drum shape. Big palmettes upside down below, zigzags above." Tub-shaped baptismal font; the basin sides are decorated with a broad band of nested chevron, but there are beautifully rendered palmettes inscribed and the spandrels of the chevrons, as well as a broad band of the same palmette motif around the lower end of the basin; the upper end is decorated with two parallel flat mouldings. The wooden cover is flat and round, reinforced with metal and provided with a ring handle. The font is in the nave, by a pillar, raised on a quadrangular base." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU0417294394] notes: "Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15 and 1876-7 by William Butterfield. [...] Tub font, C12 with chevron and upturned palmette decoration, reset in C19."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.64834, -1.9409

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 38′ 54.02″ N, 1° 56′ 27.24″ W

UTM: 30U 573275 5722458

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 6.25 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*

Basin Depth: 27.25 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 105 cm [75 + 30 cm*]

Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in inches in Buck (1951)]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912