Ringland / Remingelanda

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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Scene Description: seen here in the left panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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B02: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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B04: angel - demi-figure - holding shield

Scene Description: [NB: the identification for this side and side 8 be may be transposed]

B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: seen here in the left panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485650] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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B06: angel - demi-figure - holding shield

Scene Description: the shield appears to be blank

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485650] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485650] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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B08: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Scene Description: [NB: the identification for this side and side 4 be may be transposed]

angel - cherub - head - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 30 April 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Ringland St Peter's church from east [5774] 1977-04-30.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Mainly late Decorated in style, but the clerestory is early Perpendicular"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 10 April 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Ringland St Peter's church from SW [2943] 1939-04-10.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485648] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/485649] [accessed 9 October 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14912RIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: The Street, Ringland, Norfolk NR8 6JJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located between the A47 (S) and the A1067 (N), 11 km WNW of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford

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

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font / Evangelists' font / heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, Goerge Plunkett, in 1939 and 1977

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Domesday entry for "Remingelanda" records neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Ringland was formerly a rectory [...] Julian de Swathfield, lord of the manor under Bishop Beaufoe, gave this rectory to the abbey of West Derham, which was confirmed to them by King John in his 2d year [...] probably on the grant of it in King John's time, when a vicarage was settled [...] Thomas, occurs vicar, in 1288 [...] The Church has 3 isles and a chancel, a square tower and 5 bells." [NB: the "Bishop Beaufoe", the holder of this place, must be William de Beaufeu [aka Beaufai, Beaufoe, Beaufour, Belfou, Bello Fargo, bishop of Thetford in 1086]. The donation of the church to the abbey of West Dereham was confirmed in king John's second year, 1200, but the original transfer would have occurred earlier, datin the church therefore to between 1086 and 1199. Blomefield (ibid.) gives no dedication for this church. White's Directory of 1845 notes: "a richly carved antique font", and gives the dedication as St. Peter;s, as at present. Thomas (1846) writes: "On opening the great south door, which is in good preservation, the first object presenting itself is a massive octagonal font, in the Decorated style, and raised on three high steps. Its existing state will indicate the taste in which reparations of our village sanctuaries are too generally conducted. At the instance, it appears, of a late visitor, this elegant memorial of olden piety has been cleansed from the lime-wash that encrusted it; but instead of being allowed to remain in its natural state, it irked us to find the whole besmeared with a vile daubing of flesh colour. It stands, where in every case the baptismal font should stand, just within the principal entrance, and its leaded bowl is provided with a drain to permit the consecrated fluid to escape." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Against the stem four lions, against the bowl the signs of the Evangelists, two demi-figures of angels, and two flowers." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2009) with date of the 14th century. The font appears to be of the East Anglia type with a basin decorated with the symbols of the four Evangelists alternating with angels holding shields and Tudor roses on the sides; cherub heads at the underbowl angles, and square flowers on the chamfer below; sedente lions against the sides of the octagonal-to-square stem alternate with buttresses at the angles. The wooden cover is octagonal, plain and flat. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.682549, 1.155328

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 57.17″ N, 1° 9′ 19.18″ E

UTM: 31U 375303 5838554

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2009-07-02 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Thomas, Caddy, Sketches for an ecclesiology of the deaneries of Sparham and Taverham, in Norfolk; together with some summary details of Ingworth Deanery, in the same county, Norwich; London: Jarrold and Sons; Hamilton Adams and Co., 1846

White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845