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St Michael And All Angels

Abington Pigotts

Cambridgeshire

Fragments of C12 carved stone and roof line of C12 nave.

Architectural Features

C14 nave with north and south doorways and south porch.

Early C14 chancel.

Late C14 nave windows.

C15 tower and nave roof.

South porch repaired 1582.

Nave with embattled parapet, has three late C15 or early C16 windows each of two tall cinquefoiled lights in four-centred heads with moulded labels.

South porch with dated stone 1582 has a two-centred archway of two orders, responds with attached shafts, moulded caps and bases and moulded label with defaced head stops

two early C14 windows reset and restored of two trefoiled lights with foiled heads in two-centred arches with labels and head stops.

wall posts supported on carved stone corbels of angels and blank shields.

Chancel arch, early C14, of two-centred two-chamfered orders with semi-octagonal responds, mutilated caps and bases.

Modern font copied from original now in Royston Church

early C17 font cover, octagonal ogee with acorn finial.

Piscina C13 on south wall of nave, shouldered head with plain chamfered reveal and multi-foiled bowl.

Screen, restored C15.

In north-east angle of nave the upper doorway to the former rood-loft, lower doorway hidden by pulpit.

Pulpit, reading desk and clerks desk C17, using old panelling and fragments of the rood screen with three carved panels possibly Flemish in origin, candle brackets on reading desk.

Doors C14, to north doorway with vertical V-grooved boards and five rails, to south doorway with vertical fielded boards with moulded fillet and with rear frame of horizontal and diagonal rails.

Seating C15.

Glass fragments in nave windows C15.

Brasses and indent in chancel

floor slab of purbeck marble with indent for figure and inscription, purbeck marble slab with figure of man in long ermine trimmed coat with separate brasses of 8 sons and 8 daughters possibly identified to the Peeche family (W Cole), purbeck marble slab with indents for two figures

Monuments: Set as a dado in east wall of chancel four C17 panels to John Piggot Esq d. 1613, to Elizabeth Lynn wife of Henry Lynn d. 1665, to Henry Lynn d. 1662 and John Piggott d. 1617.

In chancel: Two limestone slabs with Latin inscriptions to Richard d.18-2 and his wife Maria d. 1773, and to Maria and William Piggott d. 1627.

Wall monument in white and black marble to George Granado Graham Foster Pigott d. 1878, Cuthbert Graham Foster Pigott d. 1849 and Lt Col Robert Graham Foster Pigott d. 1901.

Wall monument in grey and white marbles with obelisk, weeping willow and portrait medallion to Mary wife of William Foster Pigott 1816 by 'Bacon ft LONDON'.

Coffin lids in south porch C12.

Hatchments, three in chancel and one in nave.