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B01: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: Depicted as "sacrament of the altar" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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B02: sacrament - holy orders

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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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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B03: sacrament - baptism

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B04: sacrament - confirmation

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B05: sacrament - penance

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B06: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: With two couples being married

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B07: sacrament - extreme unction

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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B08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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B09: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B10: symbol - cross - Greek - 16

Scene Description: a pair, up and down, carved on each of the columns of the basin

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU02: angel - holding chalice

Scene Description: under the basin side with the holy orders

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU03: angel - holding chrism

Scene Description: under the basin side with the baptism

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU03: angel - holding chrism

Scene Description: under the basin side with the baptism

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU04: angel - holding mitre

Scene Description: under the basin side with the confirmation

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU05: angel - holding scourge

Scene Description: under the basin side with the penance

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU07: angel - holding soul rising from a shroud

Scene Description: under the basin side with the extreme unction

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU07: angel - holding soul rising from a shroud

Scene Description: under the basin side with the extreme unction

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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BU08: angel - praying

Scene Description: under the basin side with the Crucifixion

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Cautley (1949)

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LBF01: Apostle or saint? - 8

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image ofengraving by G.E. Chambers in James (1930)

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symbol - cross - Greek - 16

Scene Description: two on each of the angle columns of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by 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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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view of basin

Scene Description: the Crucifxion scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin

Scene Description: the Extreme Unction scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin

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

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

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of basin

Scene Description: the Eucharist scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - west portal - angel - censer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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view of church exterior - west portal - angel - censer

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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view of church exterior - west tower - detail

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view of church exterior in context

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 - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font, cover and supporting bracket. 15c."

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 church interior - choir - stalls - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "South side of chancel. 15c."

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 - ceiling - detail

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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."

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."

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 - ceiling - detail

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Central wooden bosses are carved with scenes from the life of Our Lord"

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 font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Cautley (1949)

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view of font context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 July 2000 by BSI

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view of font

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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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00762SAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 2000-07-28

Font Date: ca. 1489? / ca. 1437?

Font Century and Period/Style: 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.

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just past the tower base into the main nave of the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul

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."

Church Address: The Street, Salle, Norfolk, NR10 4SE

Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom

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

Additional Comments: "Salle" is pronounced 'Saul' locally -- damaged font: one of many defaced during the Commonwealth (?) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC(?) church here [cf. FontNotes])

Font Notes: Click to view

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)

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 373672 5849390

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.779526, 1.127046

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 46.3″ N, 1° 7′ 37.37″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage System: centre hole in basin?

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 Location: On the lower plinth of the font

Inscription Text: "Orate pro animabus Thome Luce et ... uxoris ejus, et Roberti filii eorum capellani, [...]"

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 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, p. 200 fn3
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 8: 269-276 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78464] [accessed 30 October 2013]
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259, 264, 289, 298 and ill on p. 294
Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 25 and ill. on p. 37
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; p. 1-32
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 169, 183
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 71, 86
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 326
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 46
James, M. R., Suffolk and Norfolk, London, Toronto: Dent & Sons, 1930, p. 163 and ill. on p. 164
Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 469
Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, 5, 6, 71, 77, 125, 170n, 171-172, 173n, 176, 194, 199, 209, 224, 225, 228-229, 234-235, 240, 242n, 244, 245, 253, 276, 277, 287, 289, 299, 305, 304-306, 309, 310-311, 314-316, 332, 339, 345-346, and plates 64, 80, 83, 88, 94
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 25
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 654
Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993, p. 196