Ridgmont / Bekeryng / Brakebergh / Brockeborowe / Brogborough / Ridgemont / Rugemound / Rugemund / Rydgemounde-cum-Segenow / Segenehon / Segenho cum Rugemound / Segenhoe

Main image for Ridgmont / Bekeryng / Brakebergh / Brockeborowe / Brogborough / Ridgemont / Rugemound / Rugemund / Rydgemounde-cum-Segenow / Segenehon / Segenho cum Rugemound / Segenhoe

Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2006

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view of church exterior - northwest end

the new All Saints', built quite a distance from Old All Saints'
Scene Description: the new All Saints', built quite a distance from Old All Saints'
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2006 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/147375] [accessed 18 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest end

the ruins of Old All Saints' Church -- Source caption: "If you look to the left of the tower [...] you can see this church's successor, the spired church at Ridgmont".
Scene Description: the ruins of Old All Saints' Church -- Source caption: "If you look to the left of the tower [...] you can see this church's successor, the spired church at Ridgmont".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2007 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/326180] [accessed 18 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

the ruins of Old All Sains' Church -- disused in mid-19thC; the roofs were still on it ca. 1900; no longer
Scene Description: the ruins of Old All Sains' Church -- disused in mid-19thC; the roofs were still on it ca. 1900; no longer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Jeffrey, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2013 by Philip Jeffrey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3138985] [accessed 18 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view

the church in February 2007
Scene Description: the church in February 2007
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fadden, 2009
Image Source: colour photograph in Fadden (2009)
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view of church exterior - south view

Old All Saints' Church ca. 1900; the roofs are still on it
Scene Description: Old All Saints' Church ca. 1900; the roofs are still on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fadden, 1981
Image Source: B&W pgotograph in Fadden (1981)
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01263RID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [Old All Saints' is now a consolidated ruin cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Ridgmont, Central Bedfordshire MK43 0XW / High Street, Ridgmont, Bedfordshire MK43 0TX
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km SW of Bedford, just S of the M1 [junction 13]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Redbornestoke
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the original 12thC font) -- destroyed font (the 14th - 15th font: by vandals in 1960 -- Ridgmont was called originally (Domesday) Segenho/e
Font Notes:
No entry for Ridgmon found in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted in Parker (1850) and in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period in this church. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Ridgmont was granted in 1189 by Simon de Wahull to Dunstable Priory [...] The [new] church of All Saints is entirely modern [...] The old church, situated some distance away at Segenhoe, is now derelict [...] The font, although scraped and painted, is a good 15th-century specimen, with crocketed arches on each face of the octagonal bowl, springing from corbels at the lower angles." The different stages of the church are studied and illustrated in Fadden (1981) and Fadden (2009). The Bedford Borough Council web site [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/communityandliving/archivesandrecordoffice/communityarchives/ridgmont/ridgmontchurches.aspx] [accessed 24 October 2011] notes: "The church had a 14th century font which was moved to the new church in 1855, returned in 1904 and was smashed by vandals in the early 1960s." The modern font at the new church in Ridgmont is an octagonal basin raised on columns, made of marble, dated from the mid-19th century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 666643 5765133
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.011786, -0.571774
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 42.43″ N, 0° 34′ 18.38″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 186
  • Fadden, Kevan J., "A pictorial survey of All Saints Church, Segenhoe, Bedfordshire", [w/o no.], Ampthill & District Archaeological & Local History Society, 1981
  • Fadden, Kevan J., "Segenhoe Church revisited", [w/o no.], Ampthill & District Archaeological & Local History Society, 2009
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged; entry # 76]