Allensmore
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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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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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view of font and cover
Scene Description: a Victorian rendering of an Early English font design
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346175] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2006 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/150871] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/905230] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2006 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/149598] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: view from the chancel through the chancel screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346178] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/905235] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/905233] [accessed 13 May 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21744ALL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: late-12thC church
Church Address: Church Road, Allensmore, Hereford HR2 9AQ, UK
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A465, 6 km SW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Webtree
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
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
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0187, -2.7791
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, vol. 1: 14-18 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol1/pp14-18 [accessed 13 May 2018]