Ormesby St. Michael / Little Ormesby / Ormesbei / Ormesbej

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view of church exterior - north view

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 exterior - southeast view

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 interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/321782] [accessed 29 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the left [southwest] corner, by the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1959184] [accessed 29 May 2014]

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view of font and context

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 01690ORM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Ormesby, Norfolk, NR29 3LN

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1993

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.67488, 1.66821

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 29.57″ N, 1° 40′ 5.56″ E

UTM: 31U 409955 5836937

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wod, 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

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997