The 12th-century church and sculpture at Ansley, Warwickshire, and its context

Tue Dec 06 2022 at 07:00 pm

Guild of Students, University of Birmingham | Birmingham

Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society
Publisher/HostBirmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society
The 12th-century church and sculpture at Ansley, Warwickshire, and its context
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Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society's December lecture by Dr John Hunt.
This lecture will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting.
The church of St Laurence at Ansley in north Warwickshire typifies many ordinary rural churches of the twelfth century in its context, plan and form, but in the chancel there survives an unusual and not readily paralleled sculpture. The church has previously been dated to mid-late twelfth century, but it is here proposed that this should be revised to much earlier in the century. The context, patronage, and development of the twelfth century church will be discussed and the iconography and significance of the sculpture considered. It will be suggested that it combined generic and more specific meanings and reflects Saxo-Norman influence.
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Guild of Students, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Rd, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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