Ashley in Test Valley / Ashele / Assele / Asshele / Assheleigh / Assheley / Eissele / Essele / Estle
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a thick one at the bottom of the cylindrical stem
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2519874] [accessed 10 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aimee Daniells, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2010 by Aimee Daniells [www.flickr.com/photos/89953410@N00/4657186643] [accessed 2 August 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "An Interior of a beautiful 12th century church in the hamlet of Ashley near Winchester."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aimee Daniells, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2010 by Aimee Daniells [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_St_Mary,_Ashley.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end, seen from the chancel, through the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Vigar, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Vigar, of Hampshire Churches [www.essexchurches.info/hampshirechurches/church.asp?p=Ashley] [accessed 2 August 2011]
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view of font - southeast side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2519874] [accessed 10 September 2018]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: towards the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Talbot, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2010 by Chris Talbot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1772325] [accessed 10 September 2018]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font in the foreground, at the west end, looking east towards the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Churches Conservation Trust, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph in The Churches Conservation Trust [http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Marys-Church-Ashley-Hampshire/] [accessed 2 August 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14361ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Ashley, Stockbridge, Test Valle, Hampshire, SO20 6RJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the Test Valley, 5 km SE of Stockbridge, 13 km W of Winchester [NB: there are three Ashleys in Hampshire]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of King's Sombourne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Late Norman
Church Notes: church is redundant, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this Ashley in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church of St. Mary [...] is a small 12th-century building, perhaps of the first quarter of the century. [...] The font is of Purbeck marble, and has a square bowl moulded below, and originally deeper, on a circular stem and square base; it is of 12th-century date, and perhaps early." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU3840230772] reports: "At W end Norman font of Purbeck marble with square bowl moulded stem and square base." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble ; "the bowl was originally deeper; there are no subsidiary shafts" [gives VCH, 4, 1911 as source]. [NB: of the other Ashleys in Hampshire, the Ashley in New Forest got its first church in 1904; the Ashley in Bentworth does not report a church in it].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0762, -1.4519
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 34.32″ N, 1° 27′ 6.84″ W
UTM: 30U 608449 5659439
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975