Ridge / La Rugg / Rigge / Rudge / Ruge / Rugge

No entry for Ridge found in the Domesday survey. Hassell (1817) writes: "The font, in its original situation, near the chief entrance, is very large, of a plain octagonal form lined with lead [...] At the bottom of the font is the usual perforation, which was made to let off consecrated water". The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Ridge, originally a chapel annexed to St. Peter's, […] belonged to the monastery of St. Albans until the Dissolution. […] The date of the constitution of Ridge as a vicarage is not known, but it was a chapel in 1291, and Henry Lake was presented to the vicarage in 1349. […] The earliest detail now visible is a thirteenth-century piscina in the south wall of the chancel, but there is nothing else in the church of the same period and the structure appears to have been completely rebuilt in the fifteenth century. […] The pulpit and font are both of stone and modern, the latter of octagonal form and plain fifteenth-century design. "