East Rudham / Rudeham

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: B&W photograph by George Plunkett taken 30 September 2013

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph by George Plunkett taken 30 September 2013

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font is visible at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Nice [http://davidnice.blogspot.com/2011/09/norfolk-churches-94-109-around-east.html] [accessed 7 March 2012]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received 8 March 2012

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Nice [http://davidnice.blogspot.com/2011/09/norfolk-churches-94-109-around-east.html] [accessed 7 March 2012]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received 8 March 2012

view of font - detail

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Nice [http://davidnice.blogspot.com/2011/09/norfolk-churches-94-109-around-east.html] [accessed 7 March 2012]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received 8 March 2012

INFORMATION

FontID: 15031RUD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: East Rudham, Norfolk, PE31 8SU

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located on the A148, 11 km W of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercross

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1300?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan plunket for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, 30 September 2013. We are also grateful to David Nice [http://davidnice.blogspot.com/2011/09/norfolk-churches-94-109-around-east.html] for his photographs of church and modern font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Blomefield (1805-1810) cites the Domesday survey of 1086 on the existence of "2 churches endowed with 60 acres" in 'Rudeham'; of the two, "The church of East-Rudham is dedicated to St. Mary, and was appropriated to the priory of Coxford"; 'John de Titeshale' is named first recorded vicar of it, in 1301. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note the re-building of this church in 1876 after the collapse of the tower in 1873; the font of the ca. 1300 church was probably destroyed at the time [NB: we have no information on it]. The present font appears modern, probably Victorian; it consists of an octagonal basin with blank shields inscribed in cusped hexafoils on the side panels; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with piping at the angles. This modern font is located at the west end of the nave, north side, just east of the tower arch.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.821264, 0.709948

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 49′ 16.55″ N, 0° 42′ 35.81″ E

UTM: 31U 345691 5854846

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999