Overstrand / Oxstrand / Othestranda
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cover on the ground, to the right of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by Simon Knott
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
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 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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
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 exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Restored and partly rebuilt 1911-14"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
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 interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2009
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14903OVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Cromer Road, Overstrand, Norfolk NR27 0JL
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disused font? / restored font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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]
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 387823 5864385
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9174, 1.331588
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 55′ 2.64″ N, 1° 19′ 53.72″ E
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, vol. 8: 143-146 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78428] [accessed 23 September 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.