Sloley / Saloia / Slaleia / Stoley
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
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Results: 26 records
B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
![on the east side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: sacrament - extreme unction
![on the northeast side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
B02: sacrament - extreme unction - detail
B03: sacrament - penance
![on the north side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
B03: sacrament - penance - detail
B04: sacrament - confirmation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 136)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
B04: sacrament - confirmation
![on the northwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
B04: sacrament - confirmation - detail
B05: sacrament - eucharist
![on the west side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
B06: sacrament - baptism
![on the southwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
B06: sacrament - baptism - detail
B06: sacrament - baptism - detail
B07: sacrament - marriage
![on the south side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
B07: sacrament - marriage - detail
B08: sacrament - holy orders
![on the southeast side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
![at the lower end of the base, at 90-degree angles [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140517007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: at the lower end of the base, at 90-degree angles [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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angel - holding shield - 8
Scene Description: each one under the corresponding scene on the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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cleric? - 4
Scene Description: on every other side of the pedestal base; at least one of them appears to be mitred
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - square rose - 4
Scene Description: one on every other side of the pedestal base, alternating with standing figures on the other four sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 135)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: forming the arrises of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The chancel is c1300"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 17 July 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sloley St Bartholomew's church from SE [6877] 1992-07-17.jpg] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "The NW tower has a Decorated west window and Perpendicular bell-openings"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 17 July 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/S/Sloley St Bartholomew's church from SW [6878] 1992-07-17.jpg] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the far end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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view of font - north and northwest sides
Scene Description: showing the Eucharist and Confirmation panels on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph May 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/sloley/sloley.htm] [accessed 30 April 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00764SLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Sloley, Norfolk NR12 8HF, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located just E of the B1150, 20-25 km NNE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Tunstede
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at nearby Brooke and Seeting
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his 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 July 1992
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Sloley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2924/sloley/] [accessed 30 April 2014], one of which reports a church and church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was dedicated to St. Bartholomew [...] and was a rectory. Sir Reginald le Gross was then patron. The rector had a manse and 16 acres. [...] The church has a nave, and 2 isles covered with lead, and the chancel with reed, and a tower with 3 bells." The present font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Seven-sacrament group [NB: the name is erroneously entered as "Stoley" in C&H's list]. Listed in Bond (1908) as one of the Norfolk Seven-Sacrament fonts. Described and illustrated in Cautley (1949), who remarks on the "extreme youth of children at confirmation". Studied in detail in Nichols (1994), who cites Squirrell (1932-1934, p. opp. 92)'s description of this font as: "full of vigour, is rugged and extremely original, but ...sinister and not a little repulsive". Nichols (ibid.) informs that the font owes its presevation to the fact that it remained covered in whitewash and plaster until the 1841 restoration of this church; she also cites Fryer on the 19th-century restoration of the font itself and dates the font to the fourth quarter of the 15th century. Nichols gives the scenes on the basin sides as: 1)Baptism; 2)Eucharist; 3)Confirmation; 4)Penance; 5)Extreme Unction; 6)Baptism of Christ; 7)Holy Orders; 8)Marriage [NB: the Baptism of Christ scene faces east, towards the altar]. Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note "four small lions on the corners of the foot", but Knott (2005), who illustrates the font in detail, shows they are actually the symbols of the four Evangelists. The font is of the type that has a smooth transition from the octagonal basin to the equally shaped base through a curved underbowl; the underbowl is decorated witn demi-figure angels holding blank shields; the stem of the base alternates standing fugures [bishops?] with square flowers on the sides between the piping that runds from the basin to the top of the lower base; the lower base is octagonal-to-square, with tiny symbols of the Evangelists at the four corners.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.765535, 1.406267
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 55.93″ N, 1° 24′ 22.56″ E
UTM: 31U 392469 5847380
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, plain and round; modern
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
Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997