Abingdon No. 2 / Abendon / Abingdon-on-Thames
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design element - architectural - buttress - 16
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design element - architectural - tracery - window tracery - 16
Scene Description: eight up, eight down
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - in a quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: several (4?)
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a circle
Scene Description: several (4?)
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17739ABI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicolas [aka St. Nicholas']
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Market Square, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3JL
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km S of Oxford [Abingdon was part of Berkshire until 1974]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, in the SW corner
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Abingdon in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The church of St. Nicholas is first mentioned in the late 12th century, when it appears to have been a chapel to the abbey church. [...] The nave dates from c. 1200 [...] The font has an octagonal bowl with a quatrefoil panel in each face. The stem is buttressed and has traceried panels on the sides." The font consists of an octagonal basin with quatrefoil-in-a-circle panels with an motif in the centres (square flower, blank shield), with moulded upper and lower rims; plain underbowl chamfer; octagonal pedestal stem with two levels of tracery windows between buttresses; the moulded lower base is also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the 12th-century church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.670473, -1.281133
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 13.7″ N, 1° 16′ 52.08″ W
UTM: 30U 618862 5725787
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.