Cold Ashton / Escetone

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3308633] [accessed 6 February 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity Church, largly rebuilt between 1508 and 1540".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rick Crowley, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2010 by Rick Crowley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1835643] [accessed 6 February 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Powell, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2013 by Robert Powell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Trinity_Church,_Cold_Ashton._-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2019]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3308633] [accessed 6 February 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21975ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Hyde's Ln, Cold Ashton, Chippenham SN14 8JU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A46-A420 crossroads, 8 km N of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Pucklechurch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Perpendicular
There is an entry for [Cold] Ashton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7572/cold-ashton/] [accessed 6 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note: "Font. [...] early C16. An octagonal bowl enriched with quatrefoils in circles and three- or four-leaf flower centres, on a plain octagonal pillar." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7510272738] notes: "Parish church. C14 tower, rest rebuilt between 1508 and 1540 by the Rector, Thomas Key; restored 1894 by Augustus Frere. [...] Font in nave, early C16, octagonal bowl enriched with quatrefoils in circles and 3 or 4 leaf flower centres, plain octagonal pillar."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.4532, -2.359
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 27′ 11.52″ N, 2° 21′ 32.4″ W
UTM: 30U 544539 5700419

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002