Ovington nr. Watton / Eaffington / Offington / Uvyton / Uvytone
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view of font and cover
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: 126)
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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil
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angel - holding musical instrument? - 4
Scene Description: decapitated or defaced
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design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 4
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: buttress-like; one at each angle, running from the basin sides down to the foot
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01703OVI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: [cf. the font at Mundford, for large protruding figures placed also on the underbowl]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Church Road, Ovington, Norfolk IP25 6RY
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1075 just N of Watton, about 30 km SWW of Norwhich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Wayland
Additional Comments: damaged font: figures are decapitated or defaced -- no photo in Knott [checked 14March 2013]
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormesby
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this Ovington in the Domesday survey. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Uvytone Church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist [...] The church and chancel are thatched; there is a square tower", and names "Will. Bozun" as first recorded rector, in 1304. Cox-Harvey (1907) lists a stone baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted and illustrated in Cautley (1949); octagonal baptismal font of the "fused" type (the underbowl just fuses with the pedestal of the base without marked boundaries); the basin sides are ornamented with quatrefoil windows, each with an object in its centre (e.g.: shield, flower(?), etc.); every other side of the underbowl is ornamented with a large protruding bust of an angel (?) holding an object (musical instrument?); these figures, now decapitated or defaced, overlap the bottom of the basin sides [NB: the font at Mundford has similarly placed figures, but they are the symbols of the four Evangelists]; the remaining four sides have blind trefoil arches. At each angle of the basin and base, a thick, buttress-like vertical moulding. On an ctagonal plinth. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) report that this 14th-century font was originally in Watton St. Mary's until 1840. Noted in Knott (2007): "unusual 14th century font with a head in each corner, brought here after being removed from Watton"
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.587092, 0.840902
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 35′ 13.53″ N, 0° 50′ 27.25″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat wooden lid; modern
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 2: 296-298 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78071] [accessed 14 March 2013]
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 21 and ill. on p. 126
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 582
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 104