Ormesby St. Margaret / / Great Ormesby / Ormesbei / Ormesbej / Ormesby-with-Scratby

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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design element - patterns - fluted

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ormesbymargaret/ormesbymargaret.htm] [accessed 29 May 2014]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Norman work

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 August 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Ormesby St Margaret's church Norman S door [1904] 1937-08-19.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: The 15c tower has a good flush panelled base-course and a parapet also with flushwork panelling.

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 26 June 1993 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Ormesby St Margaret's church south side [7019] 1993-06-26.jpg] [accessed 30 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ormesbymargaret/ormesbymargaret.htm] [accessed 29 May 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph April 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ormesbymargaret/ormesbymargaret.htm] [accessed 29 May 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10282ORM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Yarmouth Road, Ormesby St Margaret, Norfolk, NR29 3PL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A149, 2 km E of Ormesby St Michael and 3 km W of Caister-on-Sea

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of East Flegg

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

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, for the photograph of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church, taken by his father, George Plunkett, in1937 and 1993

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Ormesby [St. Margaret and St. Michael] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/ormesby-st-margaret-and-st-michael/] [accessed 29 May 2014], but neither of them mentions a church or cleric in it, Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In this town there were four churches and rectories, all in the gift of the Crown, St. Margaret, St. Michael, St. Peter, and St. Andrew; and Richard de Bellofago, or Beaufoe was presented to them, by King Henry I [...] and the said King granted him also the patronage of the said churches, all which he gave with the consent of Adam de Beaufoe, to build the hospital of St. Paul's in Norwich, to which they were appropriated and confirmed by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich. In 1205, these rectories were valued at 30 marks per ann. and one vicar was to serve them all, valued at 5 marks and a half, Peterpence, 6d. and was vicar of St. Margaret's, the other three being curacies." The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as 15th-century "but recut". Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006). Baptismal font probably of the Perpendicular period/style consisting of an octagonal basin raised on a polygonal pedestal base; the upper basin rim has a protruding flat moulding; the basin sides are vertical and decorated with a large quatrefoil motif in each; graded chamfered underbowl; pedestal base decorated with fluted pattern; raised on an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. Flat wooden cover with metal ornamentation, modern. The whole font, basin to plinth is covered in a gastly -and ghostly!- coat of whitewash. [NB: we have no information on the font from the ca. 1100 church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.670588, 1.693302

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 14.12″ N, 1° 41′ 35.89″ E

UTM: 31U 411643 5836428

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

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: 2009-06-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997