Rockland St. Peter / Rochelunt / Rockland Toft / Rokelun / Rokelund / Rokelunt

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

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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

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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

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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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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 15159ROC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Rockland St Peter, Norfolk, NR17 1TT
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: round-tower church; modified now
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.

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
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: 2009-08-19 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.