Ashley / Esselie
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2011
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Results: 3 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2011 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2011 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13835ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Greater
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Notes: Romanesaque church re-built 1848
Church Address: Ashley GL8 8SX Gloucestershire, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A429, 13 km SW of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Cicementone -- formerly Wiltshire
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font (the present font) / disappeared font? (the one from the Romanesque church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Ashley [variant seplling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST9394/ashley/] [accessed 10 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST9317294712] notes the Norman foundations of the church but does not mention a font in it. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) write: "Font. Circular, with mouldings of C14 type, on a C19 base and plinth."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 562265 5722652
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6512, -2.1001
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 39' 4" N, 2° 6' 0" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 145