Abdon / Abetune
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret, Abdon. The church remains but the village has gone, although humps and bumps nearby indicate the site."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4046938] [accessed 29 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 07053ABD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Abdon, Shropshire SY7 9HZ
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 12-14 km WSW of Bridgnorth, 13 km NE of Ludlow [NB: Abdon village is deserted but the church remains in use]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred od Patton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Abdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO5786/abdon/] [accessed 29 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "About 1138 Aelfric (Eluericus) 'the dean' gave Abdon chapel to Shrewsbury abbey in recompense for having wronged the monks. [...] By 1148 the chapel had long been paying the abbey a pension [...] The living was a rectory by 1346. [...] The small church of St. Margaret, so dedicated by 1793 [...] The plain font may date from c. 1200." Newman & Pevsner (2006) give the same date for this font.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.47567,
-2.626114
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 28′ 32.41″ N,
2° 37′ 34.01″ W
UTM: 30U 525394 5814011
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-04-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006