Hardley / Hardele / Hardley Street

Results: 19 records

B01: angel - demi-figure - holding object - 8

is it a book? with much foliage at the lower end; in the centre panel
Scene Description: is it a book? with much foliage at the lower end; in the centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel

in the right panel
Scene Description: in the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

partially visible in the left panel here
Scene Description: partially visible in the left panel here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B07: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - blank

noticed the fancy coiffed hair
Scene Description: noticed the fancy coiffed hair
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

seen here in the right panel
Scene Description: seen here in the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: 125)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

angel - head - 8

head at the angle, wings spread over the sides of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer
Scene Description: head at the angle, wings spread over the sides of the upper level of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

on the lower of the two levels of the underbowl chamfer
Scene Description: on the lower of the two levels of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of church exterior - northeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - north porch

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 May 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hardley St Margaret's church north porch [3436] 1940-05-25.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - south view

Photo caption: "Norman round tower"
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Norman round tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 25 May 1940 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/H/Hardley St Margaret's church south side [3435] 1940-05-25.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm] [accessed 3 March 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - architectural - buttress - 4

alternating with sedente lions on the sides of the pedestal of the base
Scene Description: alternating with sedente lions on the sides of the pedestal of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

alternating with buttresses on the sides of the pedestal of the base
Scene Description: alternating with buttresses on the sides of the pedestal of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 32

four on each side of the octagonal plinth
Scene Description: four on each side of the octagonal plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05758HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: Lower Hardley Road, Hardley, Norfolk, NR14 6BU
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Hardley is located about 20 km EES of Norwich, just W of the B1140
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-1189 church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Hardley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3800/hardley/] [accessed 3 March 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and is a single pile, covered with lead, and the chancel is thatched; it has a round tower with 3 bells." The church must have existed well before 1200 since Blomefield (ibid.) mentions that the advowson of this church had been granted to "Master Roger de St. Edmund, and his heirs [...] at the request of King Richard I" [+1189]. The present font is illustrated in Cautley (1949). Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C15. On two steps, one of them with cusped quatrefoils. Against the stem four lions, against the bowl the signs of the four Evangelists and four demi-figures of angels." Illustrated in Knott (2005). Octagonal mounted baptismal font; the vertical sides of the basin contain the four symbols of the Evangelists alternating with a demi-angel holding an object (one holds a blank shield); an angel's head at each angle of the underbowl, its wings spread over the sides of the chamfer; like many other such fonts of this area and period; the next level down is also octagonal and has a square flower on each panel; the base, like those at Wingfield, Saxmundham, etc., has four sedente lions alternating with buttresses on the sides; the lower base is square made octagonal by the trimming of the angles; the font stands on an octagonal plinth that has four quatrefoil motifs on each of its eight sides. In 1949 this font was set on a two step plinth; the lower step was at some point later in time removed leaving only the one with the quatrefoils on the sides, but appears to have been reinstated by 2009. In 1949 the font had a flat wooden lid with a cross (?) finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 399484 5823489
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.552182, 1.517485
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 7.85″ N, 1° 31′ 2.95″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain modern lid with crude cross (?) finial

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 137-141 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78646] [accessed 3 March 2014]
  • Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 125
  • Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 380