Ridlington nr. North Walsham / Ridlinketuna
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Scene Description: the surface is very worn and the arches appear round, but reliable earlier sources describe them as pointed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ridlington/ridlington.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The 15c tower has the four evangelists in place of pinnacles. The chancel is thatched"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 22 October 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Ridlington St Peter's church from SE [5874] 1977-10-22.jpg] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital scanning of a 2014 drawing by Robert Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ridlington/ridlington.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the plinth and probably the base as well are modern replacements
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ridlington/ridlington.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph April 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ridlington/ridlington.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01691RID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Ridlington, Norfolk, NR28 9NS
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 6 km E of North Walsham, down Happisburgh Road, towards the coast.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in October 1977; and to Robert Wilkes for his draeing of this church
There is an entry for this Ridlington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3431/ridlington/] [accessed 30 April 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Thomas de Walcote, by deed sans date, released as lord, to Roger de Veile, the moiety of this church", which, if this Thomas de Walcote were grandfather of the other Thomas one who lived between approximately 1200 and 1260, would put the church in the 12th-century. Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter. In the reign of Edward I. the prior of Lewes had the patronage of a mediety. Mr. Ralph Tremyngham (quere if not Gymingham) was patron of another [...] William was rector of a mediety in 1254; and before this, Mr. Stephen de Sthipdam in the time of William Turbe, Bishop of Norwich", which, again, brings us to the mid-to-lat 12th century ["Christopher Harper-Bill, ‘William [William Turbe], (c.1095–1174)", according to the ODNB [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29466] [accessed 30 April 2014]. The present font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "C13, octagonal, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow pointed arches on each side." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The basin has tapering sides; raised on a plain cylindrical shaft and an octagonal lower base [NB: the base may be of later date]. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with a finial; 19th-century?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.826425,
1.480521
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 49′ 35.13″ N,
1° 28′ 49.88″ E
UTM: 31U 397622 5854044
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-02 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997
