Rougham nr. Swoffham / Rucham / Rugham / Ruhham

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design element - motifs - tracery

Image Source: digital photograph December 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rougham/rougham.htm] [accessed 19 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The Perpendicular chancel windows have embattled transoms"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Rougham St Mary's church from SE [7200] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Over the door under a canopy, is a mutilated carving of the crucifix"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/R/Rougham St Mary's church west door [7201] 1995-06-17.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph December 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rougham/rougham.htm] [accessed 11 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph December 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/rougham/rougham.htm] [accessed 19 August 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15160ROU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: The Street, Rougham, Norfolk PE32 2SF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 13 km N of Swaffham, 22 km E of King's Lynn [NB: not to be mistaken with Rougham in Suffolk, also with a church dedicated to St. Mary]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Launditch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the N side of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for the photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Rougham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF8320/rougham/] [accessed 11 February 2014], but there is no mention of church or cleric in any of them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was dedicated to St. Mary, and being a rectory appropriated to the priory of Westacre, a vicarage was settled [...] the vicarage was in the presentation of the said convent [...] Henry, prior of Westacre, had confirmed to him the appropriation of this church first appropriated by Ralph Walpole Bishop of Norwich" [+1302]. The first vicar recorded "1301, John de Thursford, presented by the prior, &c. of Westacre, but nominated by the Bishop of Norwich." Thre is no expressed date for when the church was given to Westacre, and the 1301 date shows the vicarage had already been established. We have found no date for the building of this church. The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Octagonal, plain, ogees to stem." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The damaged octagonal basin appears plain; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with ogee tracery on the sides. The wooden font cover is of the Jacobean design with four vertical scroll ribs a turned central pivot, but may be a 19th-century rendition of the old model. Knott (ibid.) captions the photograph of the font "font squeezed in on the north side of the nave", which may not have been the original location.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 04.04″ N, 0° 42′ 36.13″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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.

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