Abbots Ripton / Magna Riptona / Ripton Abbots / Riptone / Riptone Abatis / Riptune / Ryptone / St. Johns Ripton

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INFORMATION
FontID: 10661RIP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1090, 9 km N of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, Perp, with plain quatrefoils"The existence of a church with a priest at Ripton is recorded in the Domesday Survey (1086). [...] Although there was a church here at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086), the earliest evidence in the present building is of a church gradually reconstructed and enlarged during the third and fourth decades of the 13th century. This church, which consisted, apparently, of a chancel, nave, south aisle with south porch, and perhaps a north aisle, was dedicated by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1242. [...] The church was restored by subscription in 1858 [...] The font has an octagonal bowl with a quatrefoil in each face, and probably dates from the 15th century."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 691208 5808132
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968