Hales / Hals / Lodden-Hales

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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angel - head - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the lions of the base [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Photo caption: "'The north doorway described by the artist J S Cotman as "one of the finest arches in existence'"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church Norman N door [3322] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church Norman N door [3318] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church Norman S door [3321] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church Norman S door [3317] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Apsidal chancel with Norman arcading and pilaster strips"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church chancel from SE [3320] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 29 July 1961 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church from SE [3319] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of a 2014 drawing by Robert Wilkes

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 26 July 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church tower [6881] 1992-07-26.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 9 March 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hales St Margaret's church from SW [3323] 1940-03-09.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2013)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hales/hales.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03467HAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

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

Church Location: Church Lane, Hales, Loddon NR14 6QL

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A146, 19 km S of Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Clavering [some times it appears in the Hundred of Loddon]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

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

Cognate Fonts: [cf. Norwich no. 4 font]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of 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 1940, 1961 and 1992. We are also grateful to Robert Wilkes for the image of his 2014 drawing of this church

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Hales in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3897/hales/] [accessed 3 March 2014], one of which mentions a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "The Church of Hales was a rectory, but granted in the 4th of Henry I. [i.e., 1104] by Ralph de Chedgrave, and Emma his wife, to William, prior of St. Olaves, probably founder of that priory; and a vicar was appointed on its appropriation to that convent. It was dedicated to St. Margaret". Pevsner & Wilson note both font and cover in this church: "Font. Late C15. Octagonal. With four lions against the stem, four demi-figures of angels and four flowers against the bowl.-- Font cover. Jacobean, thin and nice. Scrolled openwork type with central turned baluster." Noted in Billett (2006): "majestic late fifteenth-century font, with lions against the stem. The panels on the well-preserved bowl have carvings of angels holding shields and roses. The thin Jacobean cover hides a strange silhouette figure on its base. Unfortunately, the cover has now been removed for security reasons and stored elsewhere." Knott (2004) accounts for the moved cover: "The font is relatively modern, only 500 years old! The snooty little lions reminded me of their cousins at Salthouse, although the smiles here are nowhere near as friendly. There is a famous 17th century font cover associated with it - it has the silhouette of the Rector of the day on its base. It is now in safe keeping at Booton". [cf.Index entry for Norwich No. 4 font]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Domesday-period church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.51099, 1.511391

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 39.56″ N, 1° 30′ 41.01″ E

UTM: 31U 398977 5818916

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? Jacobean?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Billett, Michael, English thatched churches, London: Robert Hale, 2006

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

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-04 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999