Oxwick nr. Colkirk / Ossuic / Oxwyc / Oswyk

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view of church exterior - south porch

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 July 1999 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Oxwick All Saints church south porch [7666] 1999-07-31.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: Photo caption: ""Chancel and nave in one, and south porch c1300. Original chancel demolished in 17c. Tower reduced to single storey in 18c. Abandoned 1940. Village depopulated." (The Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk by Neil Babcock)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 July 1999 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Oxwick All Saints church ruin from east [7665] 1999-07-31.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2014]
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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: photograph taken before 1940
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: sepia photograph of Mrs. Mary Greef standing in front of the church; photo supplied to Simon Knott by Steve Greff, Mary's great-grandson [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oxwick/oxwick.htm] [accessed 10 February 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 July 1999 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Oxwick All Saints church interior view NE [7667] 1999-07-31.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - west end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 31 July 1999 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Oxwick All Saints church interior view west [7669] 1999-07-31.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

INFORMATION

FontID: 06013OXW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Colkirk, Norfolk NR21 7HX
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 2 km SW of Colkirk
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in July 1999
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Oxwick in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9125/oxwick/] [accessed 10 February 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory [...] William de Becco occurs rector in Henry the Third's time" [i.e., 1216-1272]. 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. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note that this "church was declared redundant in 1946", and described it as "in ruins, roofless, inaccessible and overgrown at the time of writing" [i.e., ca. 1999]. Knott (2006) illustrates the ruins of the church at present, and there does not appear to be a font in them. An early photograph reproduced in Knott (ibid.) shows the church building in good standing at the end of the 19th century (?). [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.793427, 0.823924
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 36.34″ N, 0° 49′ 26.12″ E
UTM: 31U 353276 5851511

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-14 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928