Abson / Abston

No entry for Abson found in the Domesday survey. The font here is described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font fair Perpendicular, and there is some good curiously carved tabernacle work in wood." [NB: the latter part of the description may have referred to a font cover]. Noted and illustrated in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal. Large bowl enriched with quatrefoils, a rose, and one panel of tracery; stem with simpler tracery panels." Baptismal font probably of the 15th century, Perpendicular period; it consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides, each decorated with deeply-carved quatrefoils with rosette inscribed; every other quatrefoil is itself inscribed in a circle; plain chamfered underbowl; slender octagonal stem with tracery windows, ending at the bottom in a moulding; splaying lower base, octagonal and plain. Flat wooden cover, octagonal, with low metal rim forming a scroll all around.