Little Oakley nr. Harwich

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11652OAK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Little Oakley [a private dwelling since 1976]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Little Oakley, Harwich CO12 5JL, United Kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1414, 7-8 km SW of Harwich, by the sea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the earlier font(s) of this church
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Oakley,_Essex
Font Notes:
Reported in White's Directory for Essex for 1848: "a beautiful stone font, of the decorative period, was presented by the rector and other contributors" during the restoration carried around that date by the then [ca. 1848] rector. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) report that this church was "converted to a house in 1976". A 1980 archaeological report on the church [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/019/01908002.pdf] [accessed 20 April 2009] notes that "the church has been cleared of all furnishings, except the font and stone reredos". [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the Norman period, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]