Abberton / Albriton / Aburton / Eadbriston / Ebbritone / Edbrighton / Eadbrihtinctune / Eadbrihyincgtun / Edbretintune / Edbritone / Edbritintune / Edburinton
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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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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
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of basin
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view of church exterior - south view
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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INFORMATION
FontID: 13339ABB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Eadburga
Church Patron Saints: St. Edburga [aka Eadburga. Eadburgawa] [of Pershore?]
Church Location: Abberton, Worcestershire, WR10 2NR
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A422, 16 km ESE of Worcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at Wyre Piddle
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.17975,
-2.00873
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 10′ 47.1″ N,
2° 0′ 31.43″ W
UTM: 30U 567777 5781494
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-. Accessed: 2008-02-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
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. Accessed: 2008-02-03 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890
Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968