Abington Pigotts / Abington-by-Shingay / Abington-in-the-Clay / Abintone

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Scene Description: the ancient in the south porch

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10693ABI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Church Lane, Abington Pigotts, Cambridgeshire SG8 0SH

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A505, 8 km NW of Royston, 22 km SW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Arringford [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Armingford

Font Location in Church: In the S porch

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of the modern font here

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There are six entries for Abington [Pigotts] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3044/abington-pigotts/] [accessed 26 May 2016], none of which mentions either cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL3043944663] (1967) informs: "Modern font copied from original now in Royston Church; early C17 font cover, octagonal ogee with acorn finial." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "The parish church, recorded by 1217 [...] From an older church, whose steep roof line is visible inside on the tower's east wall, there survive fragments of Romanesque carving. [...] The font is a modern copy of the medieval one, now in Royston church, found in a farmyard in Wendy in use as a horse trough. [...] It has a late 16th-century wooden cover." The present font, a replica copy of the font at Royston [cf. supra] consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with two sets of alternating motifs: a Greek cross inscribed in a quatrefoil and a cinquefoil arch; the inner well of the basin is round and lead-lines, and has a central drain hole; the base is made up of a broad cylindrical shaft with four attached colonnettes, all plain; octagonal lower base and octagonal plinth, both plain as well. Pevsner (1970) notes only the font cover: "Plain, Jacobean, of ogee outline." It is of low-dome octagonal shape, with short vertical sides on the lower part forming eight panels decorated with a rhomboid in each, the panels separated by pairs of vertical knobs; moulded knobs adorn the angles above them; raised arrises along the curves of the dome to the tall acorn finial. There is an ancient holy-water stoup in the south porch; it consists of a basin that appears to have the two sides at the back at 90-degree angles and partly built into the wall, with a rounded front; raised on a crude pedestal decorated with nested chevrons. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font[s] of this church. The old font now at nearby Royston [cf. Index entry for Royston, Herts.] bears no resemblance to this modern font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.084743, -0.097146

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 5.08″ N, 0° 5′ 49.73″ W

UTM: 30U 698885 5774440

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? / Jacobean?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-05-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970