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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19135RIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [in ruins]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: round-tower church -- parish amalgamated with St. Andrew's in 1771; church demolished 1792 except for the round tower, which still stands
Church Address: Hall Lane, Ringstead, Norfolk PE36 5JZ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here?
Font Notes:
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[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].
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].
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 334405 5868362
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 340-345 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78689] [accessed 7 April 2014]