Little Abington No. 2 / Abintone

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view of church exterior - south porch

Scene Description: the old holy-water stoup is wall-mounted to the right of the south portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672348] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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view of stoup

Scene Description: what remains of it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672412] [accessed 17 May 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 10027ABI
Object Type: Stoup
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: Outside, in the S porch, to the right of the doorway
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
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 "; no stoup mentioned in the VCH entry. A stoup here is described in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site [www.druidic.org/camchurch] as a mutilated holy-water stoup located outside, by the doorway [NB: the doorway has been dated usually to the 11th century]. [cf. Index entry for Little Abington No. 1 for a baptismal font of the Early English period 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

REFERENCES

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