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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: southeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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

Scene Description: south side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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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B03: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: southwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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

Scene Description: only traces now, on the northwest side of the basin [orientation is approximate] [cf. FontNotes]

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]

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

Scene Description: north side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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

Scene Description: northeast side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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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B08: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: east side of the basin [orientation is approximate]

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

Scene Description: 'Extreme Unction' scene, northwest panel of the basin [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: engraving by G.E. Chambers in James (1930)

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view of basin - south side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate] -- Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. S panel Baptism"

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

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 exterior - northeast view

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 door

Scene Description: showing part of the interior of the nave, with the font and cover

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 porch

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Early 15thc"

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 - south transept

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Ruinous, but with Decorated window tracery intact"

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 view

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 interior - bench-end

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 - bench-end - detail

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

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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

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

Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 12 [detail])

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view of font and cover

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

Image Source: Tasker (1993: 6.53)

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: church interior, looking east

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"

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 in context

Image Source: Davies (1962: pl. 12)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00740CLE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret the Virgin [formerly All Saints'?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] [formerly All Saints?]

Church Location: Church Ln, Cley Next the Sea, Norfolk NR25 7TT

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W side, to the left of the S door

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: South Creake, Salle and Binham (a/p Nichols, 1994)

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

Church Notes: three original churches here: St. Mary, All Saints and St. Peter [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.946389, 1.0475

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 47″ N, 1° 2′ 51″ E

UTM: 31U 368812 5868091

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

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

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930

Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1883

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2005-02-20 00:00:00. 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

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997

Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993

White, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Norfolk and the city and County of the city of Norwich [...], Sheffield: Robert Leader, 1845