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All Saints, Rampton, Nottinghamshire

Location
(53°17′50″N, 0°48′9″W)
Rampton
SK 799 785
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Nottinghamshire
now Nottinghamshire
  • Simon Kirsop
  • Simon Kirsop
28 June 2004

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Description

Rampton is a village in the Bassetlaw district of NE Nottinghamshire, close to the River Trent which forms the Lincolnshire border and 6 miles E of Retford. The church consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch and W tower. The W tower and nave are 14thc., and the S porch and windows in the tower and the chancel are Perpendicular. The N nave arcade is c.1300 whilst the S arcade is 15thc. The church was renovated and the chancel restored in 1894. The only Romanesque element is the font.

History

Before the Conquest 7 thegns had 2 carucates and 3 bovates and a fifth of a bovate of ploughland to the geld. In 1087 this has =d passed to Roger de Bully. Domesday survey recorded a church and 3½ fisheries. When Roger dies in the last years of the 11thc he had no heirs and his lands were given to Robert de Belleme who forfeited them following a rebellion against Henry I in 1102. By the mid-12thc. the manor was held by Nigellus de Rampton, whose daughter Pavia gave part of the estate to Blyth Priory. By the mid-13thc the estate was in the hands of the Stanhopes, who kept it for 200 years. Later owners were the Babington and the Eyres.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

Whilst the body of the font would seem to be 11thc. it has been re-tooled at a later date, perhaps in the 15thc. It was probably originally quite plain. Strangely the List Description fails to record the font.

Bibliography

J C Cox, County Churches: Nottinghamshire. London 1912, 165-66.

Historic England Listed Building. English Heritage Legacy ID: 409487

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire. 2nd Ed.

Harmondsworth 1979. Reprinted (with corrections) 1997, 292.

Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project, Rampton

  1. R. Thoroton, Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire, 3 vols, ed. J. Throsby, Nottingham 1796, 3, 241-48.