Rockland All Saints No. 2 / Rockland Minor / Lesser Rockland

Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes a group of fonts in which "the geometrical or curved tracery occurs, not exactly in the same form as in the windows of the style, but adapted so as to fill square panels upon the sides of an octagnal font. The fashion is most common in Norfolk, in which county there are proportionately a greater number of fonts of this period than elsewhere. Excellent examples occur at Bintry [...], Deopham, Hilborough, Oxborough, Rockland All Saints', Sheringham, and Thompson--all in Norfolk. Other good specimens of the same kind of treatment are at Barton Mills (Suffolk), Kingsworthy (Hants), and Strubby (Lincs)." [NB: unless one accepts that this font was completely re-cut in Victorian times, either Tyrrell-Green [cf. supra] saw another font or was totally mistaken in grouping this font with the Decorated period]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note an octagonal font of 1880 in this church, as well as a Norman square bowl. Simon Knott, who visited the church in January 2006, states, however, that the font dates from the 1880s, has a dedication to Maria Hemsworth, "and the overall style is late 15th century, but the reliefs are full of Victorian piety and sentimentality." Knott further notes that there is a portable font or stoup, also of a late date, and that there are reports, including Pevsner's, that there had been a disused Norman basin at the time in this church.