Ansty / Anestige
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BBU01: design element - motifs - geometric
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1081218010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/516727] [accessed 18 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Toby Cullen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2006 by Toby Cullen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/289060] [accessed 7 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/516727] [accessed 18 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Toby Cullen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2006 by Toby Cullen [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/289150] [accessed 3 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 3 Spetember 2008) a/p [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/]
INFORMATION
FontID: 13737ANS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: High Street, Ansty, SP3 5QD
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A30, 11 km ENE of Shaftesbury (Dorset)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Dunworth [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Toby Cullen for the permission to reproduce his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Ansty [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST9526/ansty/] [accessed 26 February 2015], neither of which mentions a cleric or priest in it. A font here is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Round, Norman, with a band of something like stylized drops hanging down." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 13, 1987) notes: "church of St. James, so dedicated in 1763 [...] The south wall of the nave may be that of the church built before 1210." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.035998, -2.063143
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 2′ 9.59″ N, 2° 3′ 47.32″ W
UTM: 30U 565687 5654246
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted -- egg-cup shape
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912