Abdon / Abetune
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4047079] [accessed 29 June 2015]
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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
Font ID: 07053ABD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: Abdon, Shropshire SY7 9HZ
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 525394 5814011
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.47567, -2.626114
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 28′ 32.41″ N, 2° 37′ 34.01″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. [87]