Allensmore
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2006
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: view from the chancel through the chancel screen
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: a Victorian rendering of an Early English font design
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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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INFORMATION
FontID: 21744ALL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
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:
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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