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

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Scene Description: the new All Saints', built quite a distance from Old All Saints'

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 - south view

Scene Description: Old All Saints' Church ca. 1900; the roofs are still on it

Image Source: B&W pgotograph in Fadden (1981)

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the church in February 2007

Image Source: colour photograph in Fadden (2009)

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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".

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

Scene Description: the ruins of Old All Sains' Church -- disused in mid-19thC; the roofs were still on it ca. 1900; no longer

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 01263RID

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [Old All Saints' is now a consolidated ruin cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Ridgmont, Central Bedfordshire MK43 0XW / High Street, Ridgmont, Bedfordshire MK43 0TX

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

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

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Font Notes: Click to view 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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.011786, -0.571774

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 42.43″ N, 0° 34′ 18.38″ W

UTM: 30U 666643 5765133

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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