Oakham / Hocham / Ocham / Ocheham / Okeham / Okham

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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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: 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

view of font and cover - west view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2008
Image Source: digital 29 December 2008 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font - southwest view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

part of the capitals for the missing colonnettes of the base
Scene Description: part of the capitals for the missing colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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

detail of the intersecting arches on the basin side
Scene Description: detail of the intersecting arches on the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases

all around the basin
Scene Description: all around the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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 - moulding

part of the capitals for the missing colonnettes of the base
Scene Description: part of the capitals for the missing colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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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view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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 west

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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 church interior - nave - looking east

with the font and cover in the foreground
Scene Description: with the font and cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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 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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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

design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled

on the west side of the 14thC base
Scene Description: on the west side of the 14thC base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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

design element - motifs - tracery

on the south side of the 14thC base
Scene Description: on the south side of the 14thC base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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

Font ID: 01837OAK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] -- 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows']
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Street, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6AA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1572 724007
Site Location: Rutland, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: composite font / altered font: base is of a later date / re-cut base? cf. Pevsner's note -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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]
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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 654017 5837698
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.667321, -0.722334
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 40′ 2.36″ N, 0° 43′ 20.4″ W

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 91, 139, 149 and ill. on p. 90
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 494
  • 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, p. 77