Ormesby St. Michael / Little Ormesby / Ormesbei / Ormesbej
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view of font and context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1959192] [accessed 29 May 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 26 June 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Ormesby St Michael's church from SE [7020] 1993-06-26.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/306934] [accessed 29 May 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font is visible at the left [southwest] corner, by the south entranceway](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140530019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is visible at the left [southwest] corner, by the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1959184] [accessed 29 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/321782] [accessed 29 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01690ORM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Ormesby, Norfolk, NR29 3LN
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A149, 2 km W of Ormesby St Margaret, 5 km W of Caister-on-Sea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg
Additional Comments: altered font (the present one; only the basin appears to be original; the columnar supports, the base and the plinth appear to be modern replacements -- disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1100 church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Ormesby [St. Margaret and St. Michael] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/ormesby-st-margaret-and-st-michael/] [accessed 29 May 2014], but neither of them mentions a church or cleric in it, Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In this town there were four churches and rectories, all in the gift of the Crown, St. Margaret, St. Michael, St. Peter, and St. Andrew; and Richard de Bellofago, or Beaufoe was presented to them, by King Henry I [...] and the said King granted him also the patronage of the said churches, all which he gave with the consent of Adam de Beaufoe, to build the hospital of St. Paul's in Norwich, to which they were appropriated and confirmed by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich." The present font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "C13, octagonal bowl on eight Purbeck marble shafts and a central column." [NB: we have no information on the font from the ca. 1100 church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1993
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 409955 5836937
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.67488, 1.66821
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 40′ 29.57″ N, 1° 40′ 5.56″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with Latin cross finial/handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 231-240 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78789] [accessed 29 May 2014]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 210
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 630