Oby / Obei / Orby / Ouby

INFORMATION

Font ID: 19230OBY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church? [disappeared?]
Church Notes: did an early church here "sunk into the ground" [collapsed?] [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Ashby and Thurne [aka Thirne], 5 km N of Acle, 15 km NW of Great Yarmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of West Flegg
Font Notes:
There are five entries for Oby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4114/oby/] [accesssed 26 May 2014], neither of which reports a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "I do not find from the institution books of Norwich, any mention of a church here; the tradition is, that many ages past, it sunk into the ground; but it seems to have been a hamlet to Askeby, where the inhabitants at this day go to church." [cf. Index entry for Ashby nr. Oby and Thurne for the nearby parish church in ruins].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 402722 5836347

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 174-179 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78777] [accessed 26 May 2014]