Little Abington No. 1 / Abintone

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672397] [accessed 17 May 2016]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Little Abington: St Mary. Elements of the church are Norman and Early English and the tower early 14th-century. Nikolaus Pevsner judged many of the lancet windows to be Victorian renewals."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2012 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2902709] [accessed 17 May 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672344] [accessed 17 May 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672357] [accessed 17 May 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the square top of the font is discernible at the far end, behind the left bank of pews

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672356] [accessed 17 May 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the CRSBI entry no longer displays the date when the font was photographed -- at the time the font was raised on a modern square plinth with a kneeling stone, neither of which remain in 2015

Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1114/] [accessed 17 May 2016]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672397] [accessed 17 May 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01395ABI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Little Abington, Cambridgeshire CB1 6BQ

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located at the junction A11-A1307, 11-12 km SE of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Chilford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [Great and Little] Abington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-abington/] [accessed 17 May 2016], neither of which mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "The church of Little Abington includes fabric which may be of c. 1100; demesne tithes there were granted c. 1130, and the advowson was recorded c. 1200 [...] The fabric of the nave may be of c. 1100. Its surviving doorways have round arches and heavy stonework. The blocked north doorway has rough chip-carving on its abacus. [...] The font, also early, has a massive square basin set on five columns." Described in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site [www.druidic.org/camchurch] as a baptismal font made of Purbeck marble. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Square, C13, plain bowl, but octagonal shafts as supports." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016) where it is noted that "The entire upper section of the E side of the bowl has been replaced, along wit a small section on the W rim where the lock has been removed." [cf. Index entry for Little Abington No. 2 for an early holy-water stoup in this same church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.119132, 0.228891

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 7′ 8.87″ N, 0° 13′ 44.01″ E

UTM: 31U 310285 5777911

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm*

Basin Total Height: 40 cm*

Height of Base: 42 cm [calculated]

Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 77 x 77 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-05-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2005-03-05 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970