Allensmore

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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew, Allensmore. The Victorian font, installed at F.R.Kempson's restoration of !878-80. Described in Pevsner as 'bulbous'."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2016 bu Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4828412] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21744ALL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Road, Allensmore, Hereford HR2 9AQ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A465, 6 km SW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Webtree
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: late-12thC church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry for Allensmore found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, (Volume 1, South west (London, 1931), pp. 14-18) notes: "The earliest detail in the church is the late 12th-century S. doorway of the Nave, with the adjoining part of the wall. The church, including the Chancel and nave, was largely re-built in the 14th century. The West Tower was added late in the 15th or early in the 16th century. The church was restored in 1880"; there is no mention of the font in this entry. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO4662935875] reports: " Font is late C19, has octagonal base carrying four detached marble columns and central drum; bulbous foliated bowl with nodding trefoils."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.0187,
-2.7791
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 1' 7" N,
2° 46' 44" W
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934