Riddlesworth / Redelefuuorda / Ridlesworth

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2008 by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/riddlesworth/riddlesworth.htm] [accessed 13 February 2013]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the cover and upper end of the font are visible at the back (west end), behind the left (south) bank of pews

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1707355] [accessed 13 February 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1707336] [accessed 13 February 2013]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 13 February 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1707358] [accessed 13 February 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15156RID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Riddlesworth, Norfolk IP22 2TA
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located on the A1066, 10 km E of Thetford. 8 km S of Harling
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Giltcross [aka Guiltcross]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photograph of this church
The first rector of this church recorded in Blomefield (1805-1810) is "Nic. de Sparkeford, priest", in 1130; Blomfield (ibid.) notes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter; it hath a square tower and one bell; the nave and south porch are thatched, the chancel tiled"; the entry does not mention a font in this church. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Plain octagonal; C17." Knott (2008) quotes from Cautley (1982?) the transfer ot the font cover belonging to the latter to Riddlesworth in the 1930s. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.394273, 0.889649
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 23′ 39.38″ N, 0° 53′ 22.73″ E
UTM: 31U 356408 5806987

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal platform with eight raised scroll ribs meeting at a turned pivot; date unknown [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Cautley, Henry Munro, Suffolk churches and their treasures, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1982
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-18 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.