Great Ringstead No. 2 / Great Ringsted / Rincteda / Ringstead Magna / Ringsted Magna

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

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view of church exterior - tower - northeast view

Scene Description: all that remains of the 12thC church here

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph September 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ringsteadruin/ringsteadruin.htm] [accessed 7 April 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19135RIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Hall Lane, Ringstead, Norfolk PE36 5JZ
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: The ruins of old St Peter's are located 30 m. SW of Ringstead Bury House
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Smethdon
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photograph of the ruins of this church
Church Notes: round-tower church -- parish amalgamated with St. Andrew's in 1771; church demolished 1792 except for the round tower, which still stands
[NB: there appears to be some confusion in reading some early sources on the two Ringsteads, Magna and Parva. Chambers (1829) writes of two parishes (St. Andrew and St. Peter) in Magna, but "nothing worhty of observation" in Parva, aka Barret Ringstead -- other sources identify St. Andrew's with Magna and St. Peter's with Parva] There are five entries for Ringstead in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF7040/ringstead/] [accessed 7 April 2014], neither of which mention a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Ringsted St. Peter was in the patronage of the abbey of Ramsey; the ancient valor of it (being a rectory) was 22 marks: the sacrist of Ramsey had a portion of one mark per ann. out of it, confirmed by John of Oxford Bishop of Norwich" [died 1200].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 334405 5868362

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810