Bale / Bathele / Bathely

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B01: symbol - shield - the instruments of the Passion

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: symbol - shield - emblem - Trinity

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: symbol - shield - emblem - St. George

Scene Description: a cross [cf. Font notes]

angel - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

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design element - motifs - floral - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "14thc tower"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 6 March 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Bale All Saints church from SE [7113] 1994-03-06.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: 2014 drawing by Robert Wilkes

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Simon Knott 2005 [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bale/bale.htm] [accessed 5 April 2007

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 12916BAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Field Dalling Road, Bale, Norfolk, NR21 0QY

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located off the A148

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Holt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle

Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches, for the photographs of church and font; we are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in 1994; we are also grateful to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of this church exterior

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this locality in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0136/bale/] [accessed 16 January 2014], but neithre includes a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints [...] The nave is covered with lead, the chancel with tiles, and has a square tower and 4 bells." The earliest reference to this church in Blomefield (ibid.) appears to be 1303, when "Vincent de Norton" was instituted as rector, "presented by Sir Ralph de Nugun, Knt." Farrer (1887 [1885?]) describes the shields on the font: "V. A cross, St. George. -- VI. A cross surmounted of a crown of thorns, in saltire a spear and reed with sponge, on the dexter side a three-lashed scourge, and on the sinister the cup of Vinegar, Shield of the Passion. -- VII. Emblem of the Trinity." Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. C15. Octagonal with the Instruments of the Passion, four flower panels, etc., all severely recut." The octagonal basin has now a thin round moulding at the upper rim, and the same moulding frames the eight panels of the re-cut sides, the Instruments of the Passion emblems on shields; new angels at the angles of the underbowl chamfer; plain octagonal stem with moulded minimal lower base; plain octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. Flat octagonal wooden cover; appears modern. Illustrated in Knott (2004).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.890833, 0.988452

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 27″ N, 0° 59′ 18.43″ E

UTM: 31U 364672 5862022

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Farrer, Edmund, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, a description of all coats of arms […] now to be found in the county […], Norwich: A.H. Goose and Co., 1885-1893

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2007-04-05 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997