Oakham / Hocham / Ocham / Ocheham / Okeham / Okham

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Results: 13 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: all around the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471451] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled

Scene Description: on the west side of the 14thC base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471446] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: part of the capitals for the missing colonnettes of the base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471446] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: part of the capitals for the missing colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471451] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: on the south side of the 14thC base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471446] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: detail of the intersecting arches on the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471458] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4489265] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the font and cover in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4489289] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4489498] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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view of font - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Source caption: "Oakham: All Saints' Church: The Transitional font from 1180. The eight original supporting piers have long gone; the font is supported by the remains of a 14th century churchyard cross."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Oakham: All Saints' Church: The Transitional font from 1180. The eight original supporting piers have long gone; the font is supported by the remains of a 14th century churchyard cross."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471446] [accessed 10 July 2015]

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view of font and cover - west view

Image Source: digital 29 December 2008 by Janice Tostevin

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font cover

FONT2 digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471451] [accessed 10 July 2015] Source caption: "Oakham: All Saints' Church: The Transitional font from 1180. Detail of the blind arcading on the font."
FONT3 digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471458] [accessed 10 July 2015] Source caption: "Oakham: All Saints' Church: The Transitional font from 1180. Detail of the blind arcading on the font."

Scene Description: FONT2 digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471451] [accessed 10 July 2015] Source caption: "Oakham: All Saints' Church: The Transitional font from 1180. Detail of the blind arcading on the font." FONT3 digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471458] [accessed 10 July 2015] Source caption: "Oakham: All Saints' Church: The Transitional font from 1180. Detail of the blind arcading on the font."

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471446] [accessed 10 July 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 01837OAK

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows']

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Street, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6AA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1572 724007

Country Name: England

Location: Rutland, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located at the A606-A607 cross-roads, 14 km SSE of Melton Mowbray, 18 km W of Stamford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Martinsley [in Domesday] -- Oakham Soke

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] -- 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photograph of this font, and for her help in documenting this font [the local guide information was communicated to BSI by Janice]

Font Notes: Click to view

There are two entries for Oakham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8608/oakham/] [accessed 10 July 2015], one of which mentions a priest, a church and half a hide of church lands in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 13th-century cylindrical bowl ornamented with semi-circular intersecting arches as the main motif; it rests on a plain pedestal but the base is 14th-century, fashioned like a 12th-century upside-down cushion capital. Cox-Harvey (1907) date it to the Norman period. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a group of Norman fonts the basins of which are decorated with an arcade of intersecting arches [T-G's list includes: Purley (Berks.), Llanfihangel Abercywyn (Carmarthen), Tidmarsh (Berks.), East Horndon (Essex), Sandridge (Herts), St. Ives (Hunts.), Oakham (Rutland), Great Durnford (Wilts.)]. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Circular, early C13, with intersected arches, originally supported by eight shafts. The foot seems a re-cut Norman capital." Stocker (1997) lists it as as a possible early font bowl set within base of successor. The label on the font reads: "Font / Bowl-13th century / Base. poss[ibly] 14th century". [NB: the local church guide suggests the basin is dated ca. 1180, and that the base is the foot of the 14th-century churchyard cross]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.667321, -0.722334

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 2.36″ N, 0° 43′ 20.4″ W

UTM: 30U 654017 5837698

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: cylindrical platform with conical extension; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984

Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 24

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928