Parson Drove No. 2

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13229PAR
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. John the Baptist [Parish Church of Parson Drove since 1870]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 13 Main Road, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire PE13 4LF
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Leverignton, 11 km W of Wisbech
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wisbech
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted, by the entrance
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/] for the photographs of this stoup.
No individual entry found for Parson Drove in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 4, 2002) notes: "The chapel of St. John the Baptist, since 1870 (see Leverington) the parish church of Parson Drove, attained at a comparatively early date a more independent status than was usual with parochial chapelries. [...] The earliest portion of the present fabric is the north doorway, which belongs to the first half of the 13th century." A wall-mounted polygonal basin with moulded side and a semi-column pedestal base, by the entrance; probably from the same period as the font [cf. Index entry for Parson Drove No. 1].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.660908, 0.053769
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 39.27″ N, 0° 3′ 13.57″ E
UTM: 31U 300755 5838625

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.