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Results: 26 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
![southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050220004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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B02: sacrament - holy orders
![south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050220005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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B03: sacrament - eucharist
![southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050220006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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B04: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
![only traces now, on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate] [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050220007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: only traces now, on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate] [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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B05: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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B06: sacrament - marriage
![north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050220008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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B07: sacrament - penance
![northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050220009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
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B08: sacrament - confirmation
![east side of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050220010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: east side of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. S panel Baptism"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church font [3908] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of font and cover
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view of basin - south side
![[orientation is approximate] -- Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. S panel Baptism"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140123017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [orientation is approximate] -- Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. S panel Baptism"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church font [3908] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - south door
Scene Description: showing part of the interior of the nave, with the font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church south door [3912] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - south transept
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Ruinous, but with Decorated window tracery intact"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church S transept ext [3913] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - south porch
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early 15thc"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 June 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church south porch [6117] 1980-06-19.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 June 1980 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church from NE [6119] 1980-06-19.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church south side [3905] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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view of church interior - bench-end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church nave bench end [3910] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church interior - bench-end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church nave bench end [3910] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church interior - bench-end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church nave bench end [3910] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: at the bottom left-hand corner of this image is the tip of the plinth of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 24 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/C/Cley St Margaret's church interior view E [3906] 1950-07-24.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: church interior, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph October 2004 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cley/cley.htm] [accessed 8 May 2013]
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view of basin - detail
!['Extreme Unction' scene, northwest panel of the basin [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060406006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: 'Extreme Unction' scene, northwest panel of the basin [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by G.E. Chambers in James (1930)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tasker, 1993
Image Source: Tasker (1993: 6.53)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies, 1962
Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 12 [detail])
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies, 1962
Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 12)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00740CLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: South Creake, Salle and Binham (a/p Nichols, 1994)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret the Virgin [formerly All Saints'?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W side, to the left of the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] [formerly All Saints?]
Church Notes: three original churches here: St. Mary, All Saints and St. Peter [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Church Ln, Cley Next the Sea, Norfolk NR25 7TT
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A149, just E of the B1156, near the Norfolk Heritage Coast, 42 km NNW of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of South Greenhoe -- Hundred of Holt
Additional Comments: damaged font: one of the scenes, figures of the underbowl... -- disappeared font (the one from the original church here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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PROBLEM WITH IDENTIFICATION BETWEEN "CLEY" AND "COCKLEY CLEY" AS ST PETER's (church destroyed in the 16thC) AND ST MARY's (Norman chapel turned into cottage) ARE INCLUDED IN BOTH -- [cf. Index entry for Cockley Cley]
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In Domesday it occurs by the names of Cleia, Cleiatorpa, (that is Cleie-Thorp,) and Cley"; he notes the Church of All Saints at Cley in relation to the advowson in "the inquisitions made in the 20th of Henry III" [i.e., 1236], and, again, "in 1384, John de Saxham died seized of this lordship and advowson of the church of All-Saints"; this church is attached to the West Hall manor. Blomefield (ibid.) mentions a second church in Cley, St. Peter's, the advowson of which was given by Peter de Cley to the priory of Bukenham "In the reign of King Stephen [i.e., 1135-1154] [...] and the church of St. Peter was accordingly appropriated to the aforesaid priory in 1177, as appears from a certificate of the Bishop of Norwich in 1476, (on search of his evidences,) to the Barons of the Exchequer"; this donation is also noted in the VCH (Norfolk, vol. 2, 1906) using the spelling 'Cleythorpe'. The dedication of the churches in Cley is given in Blomfield (ibid.) as All Saints for the main, and St. Peter's for the other church; All Saints is thus described: "All-Saints church stands at the west end of the town; it is built chiefly of flint, consists of a nave, a south isle, and a chancel covered with lead; the nave is in length about 35 feet, and including the south isle, about the same in breadth; at the west end of the nave is a round tower of flint, embattled with freestone, in which is one bell. [...] The chancel is in length about 32 feet, and in breadth about 18, and is separated from the nave by a new wooden screen painted; the communion table is railed in, and has an ascent of two steps, and the east end of the chancel is mostly of free-stone." This description is followed by the one of St. Peter's: "St. Peter's church stood at the east end of the town, adjoining to the garden walls of Richard Dashwood, Esq.; the wall of flint, wherewith the churchyard was enclosed may still be observed, and the steeple of the church, (which is said to have been accidentally burnt in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,) was standing about 50 years past. It was appropriated (as has been observed) to the priory of Bokenham, and served by a stipendiary curate. In the reign of Edward I. it was valued at 8 marks; there was a manse, with 24 acres belonging to it". There is no clear information in Blomefield about the separate fate of the two churches, and he only gives one list of rectors, for All Saints', without mention of vicars for St. Peter's; he does, however, include the following undated note: "In the Archdeacon's Register it is said, that the vicarage of St. Peter, and the rectory of All-Saints are consolidated." Blomefield (ibid.) does not give the original date for All Saints', but there is an indirect reference in his description of St. Mary's chapel, which, "has been time immemorial converted into a house for the rector of All-Saints; it is a very ancient pile, as appears from its case of flint, &c. and the building is much more antique than the present mother-church of All-Saints; the nave or body is loftier than the chancel part, which is in the form of a crescent, according to the Danish taste and custom; and the old arch at the east end is still remaining, where is the light or window for this part, now a kitchen; the whole is about 31 feet in length, and 21 in breadth; about the walls of the nave may be observed several small arches, where the old windows were. The first account I meet with of this chapel is from an old roll, (in the reign of Henry III.) wherein Sir William de Valeyns is said to have the advowson of the church of All-Saints endowed with 108 acres of land, one of pasture, and a freefald, with the chapel of St. Mary, (which he keeps to his own use,) of the gift of Sir William Blund, formerly lord of the village." That brings the total of churches in Cley to three, one of which, St. Mary's, clearly pre-Conquest. The present font is described in Lewis' Directory of 1848: "the font has sculptured representations of the seven sacraments of the Church of Rome". In White's Directory of 1845, however, only one church is mentioned and the dedication is St. Margaret's; White mentions neither font nor stoup in that edition, but both are reported in his 1883 edition: "The font is octagonal, and bears carvings of the seven sacraments [...] near the west doorway is a holy water stoup". Kelly's Directory of the same year (1883) notes: "here is also a curious and beautifully sculptured font of the thirteenth century, representing the seven sacraments of the Catholic church", and gives the dedication as St. Margaret's. The font is noted with a partial illustration in James (1930). Noted in Cautley (1949). Fully studied and described in Nichols (1994): octagonal mounted "Seven-sacrament" font, dated to the third quarter of the 15th century by Nichols. Order of the scenes [as identified by Nichols]: 1)Baptism; 2)Holy Orders; 3)Eucharist; 4)blank (obliterated), with "traces of sculpture mass consistent with iconography of the Baptism of Christ" (ibid.); 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Marriage; 7)Penance; 8)Confirmation. Nichols (ibid.) reports the angels of the chamfer broken off as well, and traces of polychromy present on the font. The wooden cover appears Jacobean. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). The sides of the basin are fully illustrated in Knott (2004). There is a part of a holy-water stoup in the west doorway, perhaps Purbeck marble; date unknown.
Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In Domesday it occurs by the names of Cleia, Cleiatorpa, (that is Cleie-Thorp,) and Cley"; he notes the Church of All Saints at Cley in relation to the advowson in "the inquisitions made in the 20th of Henry III" [i.e., 1236], and, again, "in 1384, John de Saxham died seized of this lordship and advowson of the church of All-Saints"; this church is attached to the West Hall manor. Blomefield (ibid.) mentions a second church in Cley, St. Peter's, the advowson of which was given by Peter de Cley to the priory of Bukenham "In the reign of King Stephen [i.e., 1135-1154] [...] and the church of St. Peter was accordingly appropriated to the aforesaid priory in 1177, as appears from a certificate of the Bishop of Norwich in 1476, (on search of his evidences,) to the Barons of the Exchequer"; this donation is also noted in the VCH (Norfolk, vol. 2, 1906) using the spelling 'Cleythorpe'. The dedication of the churches in Cley is given in Blomfield (ibid.) as All Saints for the main, and St. Peter's for the other church; All Saints is thus described: "All-Saints church stands at the west end of the town; it is built chiefly of flint, consists of a nave, a south isle, and a chancel covered with lead; the nave is in length about 35 feet, and including the south isle, about the same in breadth; at the west end of the nave is a round tower of flint, embattled with freestone, in which is one bell. [...] The chancel is in length about 32 feet, and in breadth about 18, and is separated from the nave by a new wooden screen painted; the communion table is railed in, and has an ascent of two steps, and the east end of the chancel is mostly of free-stone." This description is followed by the one of St. Peter's: "St. Peter's church stood at the east end of the town, adjoining to the garden walls of Richard Dashwood, Esq.; the wall of flint, wherewith the churchyard was enclosed may still be observed, and the steeple of the church, (which is said to have been accidentally burnt in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,) was standing about 50 years past. It was appropriated (as has been observed) to the priory of Bokenham, and served by a stipendiary curate. In the reign of Edward I. it was valued at 8 marks; there was a manse, with 24 acres belonging to it". There is no clear information in Blomefield about the separate fate of the two churches, and he only gives one list of rectors, for All Saints', without mention of vicars for St. Peter's; he does, however, include the following undated note: "In the Archdeacon's Register it is said, that the vicarage of St. Peter, and the rectory of All-Saints are consolidated." Blomefield (ibid.) does not give the original date for All Saints', but there is an indirect reference in his description of St. Mary's chapel, which, "has been time immemorial converted into a house for the rector of All-Saints; it is a very ancient pile, as appears from its case of flint, &c. and the building is much more antique than the present mother-church of All-Saints; the nave or body is loftier than the chancel part, which is in the form of a crescent, according to the Danish taste and custom; and the old arch at the east end is still remaining, where is the light or window for this part, now a kitchen; the whole is about 31 feet in length, and 21 in breadth; about the walls of the nave may be observed several small arches, where the old windows were. The first account I meet with of this chapel is from an old roll, (in the reign of Henry III.) wherein Sir William de Valeyns is said to have the advowson of the church of All-Saints endowed with 108 acres of land, one of pasture, and a freefald, with the chapel of St. Mary, (which he keeps to his own use,) of the gift of Sir William Blund, formerly lord of the village." That brings the total of churches in Cley to three, one of which, St. Mary's, clearly pre-Conquest. The present font is described in Lewis' Directory of 1848: "the font has sculptured representations of the seven sacraments of the Church of Rome". In White's Directory of 1845, however, only one church is mentioned and the dedication is St. Margaret's; White mentions neither font nor stoup in that edition, but both are reported in his 1883 edition: "The font is octagonal, and bears carvings of the seven sacraments [...] near the west doorway is a holy water stoup". Kelly's Directory of the same year (1883) notes: "here is also a curious and beautifully sculptured font of the thirteenth century, representing the seven sacraments of the Catholic church", and gives the dedication as St. Margaret's. The font is noted with a partial illustration in James (1930). Noted in Cautley (1949). Fully studied and described in Nichols (1994): octagonal mounted "Seven-sacrament" font, dated to the third quarter of the 15th century by Nichols. Order of the scenes [as identified by Nichols]: 1)Baptism; 2)Holy Orders; 3)Eucharist; 4)blank (obliterated), with "traces of sculpture mass consistent with iconography of the Baptism of Christ" (ibid.); 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Marriage; 7)Penance; 8)Confirmation. Nichols (ibid.) reports the angels of the chamfer broken off as well, and traces of polychromy present on the font. The wooden cover appears Jacobean. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997). The sides of the basin are fully illustrated in Knott (2004). There is a part of a holy-water stoup in the west doorway, perhaps Purbeck marble; date unknown.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for the photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1950 and 1980
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 368812 5868091
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.946389, 1.0475
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 47″ N, 1° 2′ 51″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th - 17th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: Wooden lid of the type common in the Jacobean period: ribs around a central pivot
REFERENCES
- Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955, p. 200 fn3
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 6: 36-45 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78226] [accessed 8 May 2013]
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 377-380 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78572] [accessed 23 January 2014]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259, 263
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. ix, pl. 12
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 47-48 and pl. 97-98
- James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, ill. on p. 166
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883, p. 275
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, Norfolk, vol. 2: 376-378 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38281] [accessed 8 May 2013]
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ec.uk/report.asp?compid=50883] [accessed 24 January 2007]
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 332-333 et alia
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 434
- Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993, p. 196 and pl. 6.53
- White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845, [transcribed in www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/c/cley/white1845.shtml [accessed 8 May 2013]]