Great Ringstead No. 1 / Great Ringsted / Rincteda / Ringstead Magna / Ringsted Magna

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2275678] [accessed 7 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2275685] [accessed 7 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: ""The exterior over-restored and the north aisle added in 1865." (Pevsner)"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Ringstead St Andrew's church from SE [7280] 1995-10-01.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2275667] [accessed 7 April 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2275674] [accessed 7 April 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: stem, lower base and plinth are modern, as is the cover [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2275678] [accessed 7 April 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15157RIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Main Road, Ringstead, Norfolk, PE36 5JX

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A149, E of Hunstanton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Smethdon

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

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

[NB: there appears to be some confusion in reading some early sources on the two Ringsteads, Magna and Parva. Chambers (1829) writes of two parishes (St. Andrew and St. Peter) in Magna, but "nothing worhty of observation" in Parva, aka Barret Ringstead -- other sources identify St. Andrew's with Magna and St. Peter's with Parva] There are five entries for Ringstead in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7040/ringstead/] [accessed 7 April 2014], neither of which mention a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Humphrey de Wyveleshoe, and Maud his wife, appear to have an interest herein, and in the 25th of Henry III. released to Geffrey de Mey, all their right in the advowson of the church of Ringsted St. Andrew", thereby documenting this church prior to 1241. The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal C15 bowl on a C19 base." The basin is plain but has a graded underbowl. The lining of the basin is modern, as is the font cover [NB: cf. Index entry for Great Ringstead No. 2 and Ringstead Parva]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.934821, 0.535477

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 5.36″ N, 0° 32′ 7.72″ E

UTM: 31U 334370 5867863

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined [modern]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with moulded sides; metal ornamentation and ring handle

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