East Ruston / Ristuna

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

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Results: 4 records

LB01: Animal - fabulous animal or monster - 8

Scene Description: one of the eight re-carved monsters around the lower base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastruston/eastruston.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]

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view of basin

Scene Description: all the figures, symbols and motifs are re-carvings of the 19th century -- notice also the stone-insert repair

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastruston/eastruston.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastruston/eastruston.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Scene Description: the re-carved font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastruston/eastruston.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 05200RUS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: East Ruston, Norfolk NR12 9HN
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located off (N) tha A149, 5 km N of Stalham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Happing
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the main nave
Century and Period: 15th century [totally re-carved in the 19th century], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font
There is an entry for [East] Ruston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG3427/east-ruston/] [accessed 6 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, much recut in 1882. Demons on the foot. On the bowl the Signs of the four Evangelists and four bearded heads." Described and illustrated in Knott (2008): "rather remarkable font. The base is surrounded by wicked looking demons, who stand out all the more because of the rather stark column that rises from among them. Some of the images on the panels are rather odd. A bearded head with long curly hear surronded by a jagged nimbus may be intended as God the Father, but looks like nothing so much as a Greek God. All of them may well be the fantasies of the 19th century restorers, who were at work here in the 1880s." Perhaps the only possible original part is the stem of the base, and even that is doubtful; the rest, including the motifs on the basin sides and underbowl is all a Victorian re-carving.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.803998, 1.506035
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 14.39″ N, 1° 30′ 21.73″ E
UTM: 31U 399289 5851513

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-19 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997