Roydon nr. Diss / Regadona / Regheduna / Reydon / Rygedune
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph January 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roydon/roydon.htm] [accessed 11 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by John Salmon [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/849718] [accessed 19 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph January 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roydon/roydon.htm] [accessed 11 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph January 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roydon/roydon.htm] [accessed 11 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph January 2007 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/roydon/roydon.htm] [accessed 11 February 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15161ROY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Remigius
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: High street, Roydon, Norfolk, IP22 5RE
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km W of Diss
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Diss
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) notes the dedication to St. Remigius and traces the rectors of the church back to 1198, but mentions no font in it. The modern font is illustrated in Knott (2007). The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with blank shields inscribed in quatrefoils, a moulded undebowl chamfer and a centre ring moulding; ona plain octagonal stem and splaying lower base, also octagonal; modern polygonal plinth. Modern crown-shaped octagonal cover. The basin, though modern, is damaged, with through cracks that have been repaired. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to Norman times but we have no information on the earlier font(s)].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 369387 5805148
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 1: 39-48 [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77096] [accessed 11 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.