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view of church exterior - northeast view
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18011ABB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: High Street, Abbotsley, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 6UJ
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1046, 6 km from St. Neots, 23 km from Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 1138 church here?)
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "Although there was a church here about 1138 the earliest architectural evidence seems to follow after the suit of 1272, when the abbot of Jedworth established his right to it. The chancel arch of this period, with a south arcade and aisle of c. 1300–10, possibly suggests the date of the first stone church on the site. [...] The 13th-century font has an octagonal bowl on a high octagonal base." The VCH (ibid.) further notes "an early 16th-century stoup just east of" the original south doorway of this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 691011 5786242
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.1935, -0.2053
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 36.6″ N, 0° 12′ 19.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.