South Runcton / Runcton Holme / Runghetuna / Rungton / Rungton Holme / South Rungton

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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: in 1995
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 October 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/S Runcton St Andrew's church from SE [7283] 1995-10-28.jpg] [accessed 22 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - west view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 18626RUN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Lynn Road, Runcton Holme, Norfolk PE33 0EW
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located 7 km NNW of Downham Market
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred and half of Clackclose
Century and Period: 10th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his pather, George Plunkett, in 1995
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for "Runcton [Holme] and [South] Runcton" in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/runcton-holme-and-south-runcton/] [accessed 26 August 2023], neither of which mentios priest or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Rungton is dedicated to St. Andrew, and was a rectory in the patronage of the abbot of Bury, given to that abbey with the manor, by Alfrick Bishop of Elmham [NB: there were three Ælfric who held the episcopal chair at Elmham, the last in the early 11th century] The church appears to be a very antique pile, built of rag-stone, &c. dug in the neighbourhood, and lately repaired with brick in many places: it consists of a nave and a chancel covered with reed; the nave is in length about 47 feet, and in breadth about 21; at the west end near a window of the gable (here being no tower) hangs a small bell. [...] 1301, Robert de Ereswell, presented by the abbot and convent of Bury". Knott (2009) notes the present church here as built in 1839 by architect John Brown "replacing a genuine Norman church on the same site, and actually retained the lower part of the chancel arch". The present font here is modern, probably of the date of the re-building, in a neo-Norman style. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.6535,
0.4160
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 39' 11.68" N,
0° 24' 59.14" E
REFERENCES
White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845