Sloley / Saloia / Slaleia / Stoley

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B01: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

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 - detail

B02: sacrament - extreme unction

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

B03: sacrament - penance - detail

B03: sacrament - penance

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

B04: sacrament - confirmation - detail

B04: sacrament - confirmation

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

B04: sacrament - confirmation

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 136)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

B05: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

B06: sacrament - baptism - detail

B06: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

B07: sacrament - marriage - detail

B07: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

B08: sacrament - holy orders

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

view of font - north and northwest sides

Scene Description: showing the Eucharist and Confirmation panels on the basin

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

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

view of church exterior in context - south view

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 - southwest view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The NW tower has a Decorated west window and Perpendicular bell-openings"

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 - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "The chancel is c1300"

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 interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the far end of the nave

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

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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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: at the lower end of the base, at 90-degree angles [cf. FontNotes]

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

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 - piping

Scene Description: forming the arrises of the pedestal base

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

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cautley (1949: 135)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

INFORMATION

Font ID: 00764SLO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at nearby Brooke and Seeting

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew

Church Address: Sloley, Norfolk NR12 8HF, United Kingdom

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

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

Additional Comments: hidden font (the present font managed to escape the iconoclasts's zeal unscathed by being totally covered in plaster and whitewash until 1841 -- some repairs done [Eucharist panel?] [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

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.

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 392469 5847380

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.765535, 1.406267

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 55.93″ N, 1° 24′ 22.56″ E

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, p. 200 fn3
Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 11: 60-62 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78745] [accessed 30 April 2014]
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 259
Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24 and ills. on p. 135 and 136
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 169 ["Stoley"]
Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203
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, p. 72n, 208, 209, 221n, 225, 230, 238-239, 245, 246, 276, 317-318, 334, 347 and pl. 97
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997, p. 665