Oakley nr. Scole / Great Oakley
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible in a niche at the back (west) of the nave, on the right (north) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15561OAK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, against the N nave wall
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Oakley Church Lane, Oakley, Suffolk IP21 4BW
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1118, SSE of Scole, near the county border with Norfolk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Hartismere [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / whitewashed / painted -- (disappeared font? (the one(s) from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are six entries for this Oakley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM1577/oakley/] [accessed 29 September 2015]; one entry mentions "0.5 churches. 0.11 church lands"; another, "1 church. 0.2 church lands", and a third, "0.7 churches. 0.1 church lands", in it. A font here is noted in Parker (1855): "Font, a plain octagon, attached to the north wall". [NB: Parker (ibid.) reports that the Church of St. Peter, in nearby Little Oakley, is destroyed]. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007). The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides raised on a circular stem and an octagonal lower base; on a small octagonal plinth. The font is completely covered in whitewash. The wooden cover is a rather solid and plain octagonal truncated pyramid; appears to be missing its finial; 17th-century?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, ow Suffolk Churches, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 375116 5801774
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.352014, 1.166378
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 21′ 7.25″ N, 1° 9′ 58.96″ 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
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]