Abberton
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font at the west end, north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11843ABB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Rectory Lane, Abberton, Essex, CO5 7NJ
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1025, 7 km S of Colchester [Coordinates: 51° 50′ 1.32″ N, 0° 54′ 42.48″ E 51.8337, 0.9118]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Winstree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are three entries for this Abberton in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TL9919/abberton/] [accessed 2 October 2014], but neither of them mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: plain octagonal bowl, with moulded lower edge, stem and hollow-chamfered base, probably 15th-century." Not mentioned in Bettley & Pevsner (2007)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 50′ 14.45″ N,
0° 53′ 52.38″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with a moulded top and small knob finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923