Eaton Socon No. 2 / Eaton-cum-Soka / Eaton Soken / Eton / Etone / Socon

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08804EAT
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: School Lane, Eaton Socon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 7AG
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1, 2 km SW of St. Neots
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Great Barford -- formerly Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire
Additional Comments: was it destroyed in the 1930 fire?
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Eaton [Socon] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1658/eaton-socon/] [accessed 15 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A stoup of the Norman period is noted in Parker (1850). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a holy-water stoup of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The north doorway, which is between the western pair of windows, has a two-centred head and continuous mouldings, with a label stopped on grotesque heads; to the east of the door is a stoup in a recess with a four-centred head." [NB: this stoup may have been destroyed during the 1930 fire that gutted this church] [cf. Index entry for Eaton Socon No. 1 for the baptismal font of this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 685112 5788969
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.215538, -0.288739
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 55.94″ N, 0° 17′ 19.46″ 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. 236
  • Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850, p. 448