Salle / Sall / Salla / Sawl / Sawle
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Results: 57 records
B01:
sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: Depicted as "sacrament of the altar" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
B02:
sacrament - holy orders
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B03:
sacrament - baptism
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B03:
sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: the font in the scene is of a design appropriate for the time, the 15th century
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
B04:
sacrament - confirmation
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
B05:
sacrament - penance
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B06:
sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: With two couples being married
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
B07:
sacrament - extreme unction
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
B08:
New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
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B09:
design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B10:
symbol - cross - Greek - 16
Scene Description: a pair, up and down, carved on each of the columns of the basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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BU01:
angel - holding altar stone
Scene Description: Under the Eucharist side of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU02:
angel - holding chalice
Scene Description: under the basin side with the holy orders
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU03:
angel - holding chrism
Scene Description: under the basin side with the baptism
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU03:
angel - holding chrism
Scene Description: under the basin side with the baptism
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BU04:
angel - holding mitre
Scene Description: under the basin side with the confirmation
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU05:
angel - holding scourge
Scene Description: under the basin side with the penance
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU06:
angel - holding musical instrument - lyre? type of lute?
Scene Description: under the basin side with the matrimony
BU06:
angel - holding musical instrument - lyre? type of lute?
Scene Description: under the basin side with the matrimony
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU07:
angel - holding soul rising from a shroud
Scene Description: under the basin side with the extreme unction
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU07:
angel - holding soul rising from a shroud
Scene Description: under the basin side with the extreme unction
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
BU08:
angel - praying
Scene Description: under the basin side with the Crucifixion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Cautley (1949)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
LBF01:
Apostle or saint? - 8
Scene Description: now missing; only the lower folds of some of their robes, the small pedestals on which they stood and, in one case, a couchant or protome of an animal [a lion?] remain
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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P01:
design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: on the risers of the upper step of the plinth
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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P02:
inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB01:
design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled - 8
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UB02:
design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: at the angles
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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UBF01:
Apostle or saint? - 8
Scene Description: now missing [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: one at each corner of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
symbol - cross - Greek - 16
Scene Description: two on each of the angle columns of the basin
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view of basin
Scene Description: the Eucharist scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin
Scene Description: the Holy Orders scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin
Scene Description: the Baptism scene
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin
Scene Description: the Confirmation scene
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin
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view of basin
Scene Description: the Extreme Unction scene
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of basin
Scene Description: the Crucifxion scene
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of church exterior - west portal
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI
view of church exterior - west portal - angel - censer
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view of church exterior - west portal - angel - censer
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church exterior - west tower - detail
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 6 October 1939 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Salle Ss Peter and Paul church south side [3272] 1939-10-06.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013]
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view of church interior - ceiling - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Central wooden bosses are carved with scenes from the life of Our Lord"
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 27 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Salle Ss Peter and Paul chancel roof view W [3941] 1950-07-27.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013]
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view of church interior - ceiling - detail
Scene Description: N/A
aption: "Seven sacrament font, cover and supporting bracket. 15c."
S CHNCL STLLS B&W photograph taken 27 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Salle Ss Peter and Paul chancel misericords [3938] 1950-07-27.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013] Caption: "South side of chancel. 15c."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 27 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Salle Ss Peter and Paul 15c N transept roof [3939] 1950-07-27.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013]
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view of church interior - choir - stalls - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "South side of chancel. 15c."
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 27 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Salle Ss Peter and Paul chancel misericords [3938] 1950-07-27.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © spikeswurda, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2006 by spikeswurda; in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/spixworth/219761349/in/set-72157594533730055/] [accessed 21 October 2007]
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view of font
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image ofengraving by G.E. Chambers in James (1930)
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font, cover and supporting bracket. 15c."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 27 July 1950 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Salle Ss Peter and Paul font cover bracket [3936] 1950-07-27.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2013]
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view of font context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00762SAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: The Street, Salle, Norfolk, NR10 4SE
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located about 20 km WNW of Norwich; easiest access is via the A1067 to Badeswell, connecting there with the B1145 N which is followed till Reepham where e left road leads directly to Salle (also accessible via the B1149 and the A140 at Aylsham; the latter with another good font)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Eynesford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just past the tower base into the main nave of the church
Date: ca. 1489? / ca. 1437?
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font / East Anglia font
Cognate Fonts: Nichols (1994) gives South Creake, Cley and Binham as cognate fonts.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, Goerge Plunkett, in 1950; we are also grateful to Janice Tostevin for her additional photographs of this font
Church Notes: Hutton (1957) describes this church, a "wool church", as "one of the best in England" and remarks the fine panelled transept roofs "from which those of the House of Lords are said to have been copied."
There is no mention of church or cleric in the Domesday entry for "Salla" [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG1124/sall/] [accessed 18 October 2015]. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church is a stately pile, built chiefly of freestone, in form of a cathedral, consisting of a nave, a north and south isle with 2 cross isles, and a chancel covered with lead, and a lofty, strong, four-square tower at the west end, on which are carved the arms of St. Peter and St. Paul, of the crucifixion, &c. of Brews and Mauteby, Morley, Kerdeston, &c.; benefactors, no doubt, to this work, which was built in the reign of Henry VI." [i.e., 1422-1461] There must have been an earlier church here, however, since Blomefield (ibid.) gives "Simon de Ellesworth" first recorded rector of Salle, unfortunately 'sine data', and the first dated rector occurs in "1316, Mr. John Bacoun, presented by Sir Edmund Bacoun, Knt." The font cover here is listed in Paley (1844). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908): "The font at Sall has not only the figure scenes, but the emblems below of each sacrament. Baptism is symbolised by a casket for the holy oil; Confirmation by a mitre; the Eucharist by an altar slab; Penance by a rod; Extreme Unction by the soul as a little figure rising out of a shroud; Ordination by a chalice; the eighth panel is a representation of the Crucifixion, up to which an angel below gazes in an attitude of adoration". Bond (ibid.) describes the cover as a fine example of Gothic covers, "suspended from the end of a wooden crane projecting ten feet from the front of the tower gallery; a rope runs along the horizontal member of the crane and down to the winch." In Howard & Crossley (1919). In Cautley (1949). Studied in detail in Nichols (1994), who dates it to the third quarter of the 15th century; she gives the order of the scenes as: 1)Baptism; 2)Holy Orders; 3)Eucharist; 4)Crucifixion; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Matrimony; 7)Penance; 8)Confirmation; she also identifies the donors as Thomas Luce, his wife and their son Robert, the chaplain. Described and fully illustrated in Knott (2004). On-site notes: Seven-sacrament font; it stands on a double plinth and is topped by a tall cover which is operated from a crane in the gallery balcony. The basin has some cracks and has lost a piece of the rim, probably during the removal of the original hinches; the carved areas have suffered some defacement. The area of the base has suffered worse fate than the basin panels themselves, as the fugures that stood on pedestals at the angles are all missing; the sides of the pedestal base are decorated with cinquefoil panels that appear to have been designed to serve as background to yet another set of figures, as there are tiny pedestals attached to them, now empty. The two step plinth has an upper surface and treads covered with inlaid [aka encaustic] tiles; the risers of the upper step are decorated with tracery, each side with a cinquefoiled panel between two quatrefoil-in-a-circle motif; the risers of the lower step bear an inscription in black lettering that identifies the sponsors of the font. Based on the inscription on the 2nd plinth, with its dedication to Thomas Luce, the font can be dated to circa 1489, date of his death. But Pevsner & Wilson (1997) write: "The inscription records the donor, who died in 1437". In Clausén (2021)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.779526,
1.127046
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 46′ 46.3″ N,
1° 7′ 37.37″ E
UTM: 31U 373672 5849390
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: Probably a central hole; the warden could not lift the font cover during our visit due to problems with the old crane
Rim Thickness: 14 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm* (approx.)
Diameter (includes rim): 87-96 cm
Basin Depth: 33 cm* (approx)
Height of Basin Side: 31 cm*
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Height of Base: 65 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 31x34 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 174 cm* (with 2 plinths)
Notes on Measurements: * BSI. [NB: the measurements of the inside of the basin are approx. because the cover could not be lifted entirely during our visit]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: Full English translation: "Pray for the souls of Thomas Luce and Agnes his wife, and Robert their son, chaplain, and those for whom they are bound to pray who caused this font to be made." (source: Church brochure) [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: On the lower plinth of the font
Inscription Text: "Orate pro animabus Thome Luce et ... uxoris ejus, et Roberti filii eorum capellani, [...]"
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907 (for the Latin); church brochure for the English translation.
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century / Perpendicular / Gothic
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: Winch system: "tall cover suspended from the end of a wooden crane projecting ten feet from the tower gallery; a rope runs along the horizontal member of the crane and down to the winch." (Bond, 1985 c. 1908, p. 298)
Notes: The font cover is probably 8-9 feet tall and hangs from a large wooden bracket secured to the railing and wooden frame of the bell-ringers' gallery in the tower
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
Clausén, Marie, "‘But the Fountain Sprang Up and the BirdSang Down’: Heidegger’s Gatheringof the Fourfold and theSeven-Sacraments Font at Salle,Norfolk.", 12, 464, Religion, 2021, pp. 1-32; r["References"]
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
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976
James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930
Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-02 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
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