South Raynham / Raineham / Rainham St. Martin / Reineham / Reinham / Remeham
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the west end
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06014RAY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Church Lane, South Raynham, Norfolk, NR21 7DE
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A1065, 8 km WSW of Fakenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes about "RAINEHAM, Or Reineham, as it is wrote in the book of Domesday", in which, "part of the town now called East Rainham, and made up that parish, or lordship, as I take it, called now Rainham-Magna [...] South Rainham was then a beruite, that is, a less manor, and depending on this"; a third part was West Reinham. With regards the churches of East Raynham [i.e., Great/Magna] and South Raynham, Blomefield (ibid.) reports a dispute related to their advowsons, which resulted in a fine levied "in the 12th of Henry III" [i.e., 1238]; he names 'Hugh' as first recorded vicar here, in 1325. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. Knott (2007) shows a plain white-washed octagonal font at the west end of the nave [NB: Knott (2007) reports and illustrates the base of what may have been a 18th-century font in the ruins of West Raynham St. Margaret's]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.783217,
0.787965
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 46′ 59.58″ N,
0° 47′ 16.67″ E
UTM: 31U 350817 5850449
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-06-26 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
