Rockland St. Peter / Rochelunt / Rockland Toft / Rokelun / Rokelund / Rokelunt
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rocklandstpeter/rocklandstpeter.htm] [accessed 19 August 2009]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rocklandstpeter/rocklandstpeter.htm] [accessed 19 August 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rocklandstpeter/rocklandstpeter.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rocklandstpeter/rocklandstpeter.htm] [accessed 28 February 2013]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph January 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rocklandstpeter/rocklandstpeter.htm] [accessed 19 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15159ROC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: round-tower church; modified now
Church Address: Rockland St Peter, Norfolk, NR17 1TT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1077, 7 km W of Attleborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Shropham [formerly in the Hundred of Wayland?]
Font Notes:
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Armstrong (1781) lists this as one of the three parishes of Rockland and notes that its church was appropriated to the abbesss of Marham in 1349 "by the consent and approbation of the pope and the bishop"; this author (ibid.) further notes: "The church of St. Peter, which is the deanry church, hath noting remarkable in it [...] The tower is octangular, and hath three bells in it; the chancel is ruined, a fmall part of which was re-built by a late rector to officiate in". In Blomefield (1805-1810) with similar information, and no font mentioned. A font in this church is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, Dec[orated]. Encircled quatrefoils on the stem, tracery on the bowl." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "At the west end of the nave is one of the biggest fonts I've seen in Norfolk, a massive, tracery carved affair". Raised on a modern polygonal plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 359586 5822002
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Armstrong, Mostyn John, History and antiquities of the County of Norfolk [...] containing [...], Norwich: printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, Bookseller, 1781, Hundred of Sropham, p. 125-129
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 1: 473-482 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77140] [accessed 28 February 2013]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.