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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "Abberton church is dedicated to St. Eadburga and was rebuilt in 1881–2 on the site of the old church."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abberton church is dedicated to St. Eadburga and was rebuilt in 1881–2 on the site of the old church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2022039] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben Read [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1153/] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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design element - motifs - zigzag

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben Read [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1153/] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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view of basin

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben Read [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1153/] [accessed 2 October 2014]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13339ABB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at Wyre Piddle
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Eadburga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edburga [aka Eadburga. Eadburgawa] [of Pershore?]
Church Address: Abberton, Worcestershire, WR10 2NR
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A422, 16 km ESE of Worcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font / damaged font / repaired font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Abberton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9953/abberton/] [accessed 2 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noake (1868) reports a Norman font in this church. Miller (1890) reports "The church has been rebuilt; the old one being in a very dilapidated condition", but mentions no font in it. Noted in the Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924): "The advowson of Abberton was in the hands of the Abbot of Pershore in 1283 [...] The church of St. Eadburga was entirely rebuilt in 1881–2 on the site of the old church [...] The font has a hemispherical 12th-century bowl with small upright cheveron ornament round the rim and a cheveron band lower down." In Pevsner (1968): "Font. Late Norman, round, with one band of arrow heads and one of zigzag. Very similar to the font at Wyre Piddle." Ditto in Brooks & Pevsner (2007). Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014), which reports that the basin "is broken into two parts laterally and has been repaired with mortar" and that the stem is modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 567777 5781494
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.17975, -2.00873
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 47.1″ N, 2° 0′ 31.43″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Basin Depth: 23 cm*
Basin Total Height: 41 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 103
  • Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
  • Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 201
  • Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868, p. 5
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 68