Salhouse / Sallowes / Sallows / Salthous

Blomefield (1805-1810) has "Sallowes" aka Sallow/Shallows/Salthous, as a hamlet to Wroxham: "There was formerly a chapel in this hamlet, to which the vicar of Wroxham is also instituted, with his vicarage, there seems, to have been one at the time of the Conqueror's survey, wherein it is said that there were 2 churches, as may be seen in the account of Beaufoe's manor in Wroxham; it was dedicated to All-Saints; the churchyard belonging to it is mentioned in 1465, and in 1523." The present font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. From Woodbastwick church. Octagonal, with panelled stem." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005): "The churchwarden confirmed Mortlock's story that the font came from Woodbastwick at the time of the rebuilding there". The font consists of a crude and plain octagonal basin that has been repaired with large sections of inserty stone at the rim; it may have been re-tooled; it is raised on a stem of the same shape with a trefoiled arch on each side; the small splaying lower base is also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern. [NB: there is a 19th-century (?) baptismal font and cover at Woodbastwick that may have been introduced at the renovation by Sir Gilbert Scott -- for a view of the latter font cf. entry for Woodbastwick in Knott (2005)]