Oxnead / Oxenedes / Oxned / Oxnede / Oxnet
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/overstrand/overstrand.htm] [accessed 26 June 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oxnead/oxnead.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oxnead/oxnead.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/oxnead/oxnead.htm] [accessed 3 June 2013]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/overstrand/overstrand.htm] [accessed 26 June 2009]
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design element - motifs - lozenge
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2005 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/overstrand/overstrand.htm] [accessed 26 June 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14904OXN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SSE of Aylsham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Erpingham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1910) writes of Oxnead: "In the Confessor's reign it was the lordship of Guert, a thane of Saxon or Danish extraction, and Aildeig a freeman held it under him; but at the grand survey [i.e., Domesday, 1086] Halden was the lord, when there was a church belonging to it, endowed with a large glebe in that age, 24 acres [...] The Church of Oxnead is dedicated to St. Michael, consisting of a nave, and a chancel, both covered with tiles, and a square tower, in which is one bell." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Nicholas de Castello, or Castle" as first recorded rector here, in 1307. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as a baptismal font of the 17th century. Illustrated in Knott (2005). The font conists of a plain octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with mouldings at top and bottom, large lozenge motifs in between, plain splaying lower base; The wooden cover, with a moulded base and raised scroll ribs, could be contemporary with the font itself. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 385559 5847851
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.768348, 1.303728
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 6.05″ N, 1° 18′ 13.42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 477-496 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78283] [accessed 3 June 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.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 635