Oakley nr. Bedford / Accleia / Achelai / Achelei / Acheleia / Aclai / Akle / Eccleye / Ocle / Oekle / Okley

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: each buttress linking the lower basin to the lower base

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2011, in Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Oakley/AlterationsAndAdditionsToOakleyChurch.aspx] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: a different one on each side

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's, Oakley. The present building evolved from a C12 church of a chancel and a nave. Of this, only the nave remains. In the C13, the chancel and aisles were added. The tower was added in the C15 The church was heavily restored in C19, when the chancel was completely rebuilt."

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground

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view of font and cover - northeast side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2011, in Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Oakley/AlterationsAndAdditionsToOakleyChurch.aspx] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01276OAK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RU
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A6, jusr N of Claham, 6 km NW of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Stodden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
There are two entries for this Oakley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0153/oakley/] [accessed 14 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is listed in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of octagonal fonts made mostly of Totternhoe stone: "Oakley has Gothic tracery". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The tower is the oldest part of the building, its lower part dating from the middle of the 12th century, and the two western bays of the nave arcades were probably first built at the end of the same century. [...] There is a good 15th-century octagonal font with traceried panels to the bowl and buttresses, much cut back at the angles." In Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, Perp, with tracery motifs."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.165851, -0.524299
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 57.07″ N, 0° 31′ 27.47″ W
UTM: 30U 669316 5782375

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [chalk / Totternhoe stone?]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968