Oakington No. 1 / Hochinton / Hochintone / Hockington / Oakington-with-Westwick
Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/oakington.htm] [accessed 18 November 2007]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12
Scene Description: three on each side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/oakington.htm] [accessed 18 November 2007]
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design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: at the angles of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/oakington.htm] [accessed 18 November 2007]
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view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/oakington.htm] [accessed 18 November 2007]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/oakington.htm] [accessed 18 November 2007]
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view of font - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/545/] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of basin - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/545/] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01384OAK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 66 High Street, Oakington, Cambridgeshire CB4 5AG
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A14, 10 km NW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Northstowe
Additional Comments: recycled font: damaged basin mounted on later base -- disappeared font? (was there a pre-Conquest church here?)
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for Oakington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4164/oakington/] [accessed 29 June 2016], none of which mentions a church in it; one of the entries shows that it had been in the lordship fo "Alfgeat the priest" in 1066, before it passed under the lordship of the Abbey of Ely in 1086; there may therefore have been a priest here in pre-Conquest times. The Lysons (1806-1833) report square basin here, the sides decorated with round arches, raised on four pillars. Illustrated in an October 1837 sketch by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Described in Paley's Guide (1844): "The font is square, with circular arches rudely carved on the bowl, supported on five legs." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the early Norman period [NB: C&H include two entries for Oakington: one for an early Norman font and another for an Early English one -- it appears to be an error and only one font exists in this church]. Kelly's Directory of this county for 1929 records that "the church retains an ancient stone font consisting of a rudely arcaded basin, supported on five shafts." [source: 2003 transcription by Martin Edwards]. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Square, of stone with three blank arcades on each side; five polygonal supports. The date is C12." The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Cambridge…, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "The square font with arcaded sides, probably [...] 12th-century, is mounted on a 15th-century base." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "a square, arcaded 12thc. bowl mortared onto a later medieval support (five octagonal shafts with high moulded bases but no capitals, supporting a chamfered block [...])" The entry for Oakington in the Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/] describes and illustrates only one font: "a square Norman bowl sitting on five octagonal pillars -- on each face of the bowl is a blank arcade with three openings." The font cover is octagonal and wooden with metal decorations and handle, probably modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the information on, and photographs of church and font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 300085 5794255
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.262294, 0.070469
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 15′ 44.26″ N, 0° 4′ 13.69″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 53.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 46 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 70.5 x 70.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 188
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929, [unavailable]
- 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, vol. II: p. 60
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 29
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, The Ecclesiologist's guide to the churches within a circuit of seven miles round Cambridge, with introductory remarks, London; Cambridge: J. van Voorst; Metcalfe and Palmer, 1844, p. 13
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 444