Roydon nr. King's Lynn / Reiduna / Reydon / Ridone / Rydon

The Domesday survey entry for "Reiduna" http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF6923/roydon/] [accessed 25 November 2013] mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is a rectory", and names "Thomas de Holm" first recorded rector, unfortunately sine data; the next recorded rector here is "John, son of John Alunday", in 1308. The present font is modern, of neo-Norman style, probably introduced by G.E. Street in his 1857 reconstruction of this church; it consists of a square basin with carved nedallions and motifs on the sides, raised on a broad central shaft and four angular columns, the latter in the customary coloured marble -red- of Victorian taste; on a square lower base and plinth. Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as a "Neo-Norman" font from the 1857 renovation by G.E. Street. The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-222009-church-of-all-saints-roydon] [accessed 29 July 2010] reports a church of 1857 dedicated to All Saints in Roydon (Church Lane), with a "Square sandstone font of 1857 colonettes and central sandstone pier." But, the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008) reports remains of sculptured pieces from the original Romanesque church that were built into in the north and south doorways in the 19th-century reconstruction [NB: we have no information on the medieval font] [NB: the font of the original Norman church here was probably destroyed when lightning stroke the church in the 1850s -- we have no information on it]].