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

INFORMATION

FontID: 08804EAT
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: School Lane, Eaton Socon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 7AG
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
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
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.215538, -0.288739
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 55.94″ N, 0° 17′ 19.46″ W
UTM: 30U 685112 5788969

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850