Ampney-Crucis, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on Ampney brook, near Ermine Street, 2 1/2 miles E of Cirencester. The parish contains the hamlet of Alcott-End, and has a post office under Cirencester, the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 3097; population of the civil parish, 490; of the ecclesiastical, 488. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £130. The Church of the Holy Cross (Sanctae Crucis) is an ancient structure in the Early English style, with an embattled western tower, and has been carefully restored. It contains a white marble monument to Viscount Downe, and to members of the Pleydell family, to whom the manor once belonged, and also stained memorial windows. A free school, founded and endowed in 1722 by Sir Robert Pleydell, has an income of £80.
