Roughton nr. Crome / Rostuna / Rustuna

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott, July 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roughton/roughton.htm] [accessed 26 February 2007]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott, July 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roughton/roughton.htm] [accessed 26 February 2007]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 August 1978 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Roughton St Mary's church from SE [5986] 1978-08-25.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 August 1978 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Roughton St Mary's church preconquest tower [5985] 1978-08-25.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott, July 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roughton/roughton.htm] [accessed 26 February 2007]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Scene Description: notice the changing patterns of stonework on the lower part of the tower

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 25 August 1978 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Roughton St Mary's church preconquest tower [5985] 1978-08-25.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott, July 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roughton/roughton.htm] [accessed 26 February 2007]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott, July 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roughton/roughton.htm] [accessed 26 February 2007]

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph July 2005 taken by Simon Knott, July 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roughton/roughton.htm] [accessed 26 February 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01705ROU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Loke, Roughton, Norfolk, NR11 8PE

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located between Cromer and Aylsham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of North Erpingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font.

Church Notes: round-tower church (lower part said to be pre-Conquest, even though Domesday does not register a church in this location)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Roughton was a rectory, valued at 18 marks, which being granted to the nunnery of Bungey by Roger de Glanville and the Lady Gundreda his wife, it was appropriated to that convent; the said convent was found to hold it, and to be patrons of the vicarage which was founded on the appropriation of it, in the reign of King Edward I. when the vicar had a manse with 24 acres of land; the impropriate rectory had also a manse, but no lands, [...] The church is dedicated to St. Mary". The two entries for "Rustuna" / "Rostuna" in Domesday mention neither church nor cleric in it, but there must have been a church here before 1189, since Blomefield (ibid.) reports the transfer of the patronage to the nunnery of Bungey, "in the reign of King Henry II." [i.e., 1154-1189]. The present font is listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Decorated period. Bell (1927) lists an 1839 water-colour drawing of this font by Miles Edmund Cotman in the Bulwer Collection. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, C14. Plain stem with eight attached shafts, two ogee arches against eacgh side." Knott (2005), who illustrates the font, writes: "The font is one of those you often find in this part of Norfolk, apparently E[arly] E[nglish] becoming Dec[orated] but probably later than that, and, as Mortlock observes, probably part of an off-the-shelf collection rather than anything produced locally." The font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides decorated with an arcade of trefoil arches, spandrels formed by the upwards extension of the curved arches; the moulded capitals of the base colonnettes abutt directly on the underbowl; between the colonnettes, a trefoil arch or window on each side; the bases of the colonnettes moulded, like the capitals; octagonal lower base;l octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover has an octagonal platform wich becomes quadrangular in the form of a tabernacle, the sides with arches similar to those on the basin sides; four curved crocketed ribs join to support a floral finial. The cover appears to have a counterweight raising mechanism. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.880652, 1.298143

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 50.35″ N, 1° 17′ 53.32″ E

UTM: 31U 385478 5860351

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bell, C.F., Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858): with a catalogue of fifty drawings by him, selected from the Bulwer Collection, London: Walker's Galleries, [1927?]

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: 2007-02-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997