Oulton nr. Aylsham / Olton / Oulstuna

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the restored font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oulton/oulton.htm] [accessed 28 May 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oulton/oulton.htm] [accessed 28 May 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oulton/oulton.htm] [accessed 28 May 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06012OUL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Address: Church Lane, Oulton, Norfolk NR11 6NU

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located between the B1149 and the B1354, about 8 km WWN of Aylsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham

Additional Comments: altered font: the basin is raised on a later/modern base -- disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "OLTON, Or the old town, hath its church dedicated to St. Peter and Paul; its tower is square and hath three bells; the nave and two transept chapels are leaded, and the chancel is tiled. [...] The church belonged to the manor, till Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent, for his own soul and that of Alice his wife, gave it with the church of Bedingham, to Walsingham priory, and the canons there, and King Edward I. confirmed it in 1280 [...] The vicars that I have met [ [i.e., first recorded] with follow. 1337, John le Marshall, priest nominated by the Bishop, and presented by the prior of Walsyngham, as all the vicars were till the Dissolution." There is no mention of a church or priest in the Domesday entry for this parish (fol. 12). The present font here is listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson as 15th-century. The only ornamentation are a few mouldings on the sides of the broad octagonal stem [which appears to be a later replacement]; raised on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover Is octagonal and flat, with knob handle/finial; appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 376571 5852885

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.811605, 1.16868

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 48′ 41.78″ N, 1° 10′ 7.25″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 370-374 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78268] [accessed 28 May 2013]
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 631
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31