Overstrand / Oxstrand / Othestranda

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Restored and partly rebuilt 1911-14"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 February 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/O/Overstrand St Martin's church from SE [7180] 1995-02-12.jpg] [accessed 23 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Ruined during the 18th century, a new church was built on the site, to the west of the old church, in the 19th century. When a larger church was needed in the early 1900s it was decided to restore the medieval building by re-using as much as possible of the old materials which still lay in the grass where they had fallen"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1119154] [accessed 23 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1119172] [accessed 23 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2009 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1119175] [accessed 23 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover on the ground, to the right of the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by Simon Knott

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14903OVE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Cromer Road, Overstrand, Norfolk NR27 0JL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the B1159 (Cromer Rd.), down the coast from Cromer, just S of the Royal Cromer Golf Club

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

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

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photograph of the present font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in February 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday entry for "Othestranda" mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Martin. In the reign of Edward I.[i.e., 1272-1307] Roger de Eccleburgh was patron, when the rector had a grange with 20 acres". Pevsner & Wilson (1997) do not mention a font in this church, nor in the newer, but now disappeared, Christ Church. A font is illustrated in Knott (2008) at the west end of the nave, to the right of the tower arch (looking west); it is a typical octagonal font of the plain type and therefore of uncertain date, but it could well be from the late medieval period [ca. 1399?] to which much of the church belongs. Knott (ibid.) writes that "Arthur Mee says that the old font was found in a garden" [NB: Knott refers to Mee's Norfolk (1940) in the series King's England -- reference not yet available]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9174, 1.331588

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 2.64″ N, 1° 19′ 53.72″ E

UTM: 31U 387823 5864385

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