Salle
Church, Norfolk
St Peter and St Paul, 15th century |
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Notes in italics from North-West and South Norfolk by Nikolaus Pevsner
(1962) Penguin Books, now published by Yale University Press |
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Salle is not only an
exceptionally complete Perp church, it is also historically exceptionally
important in that it can be dated with fair accuracy. ... (Largely
between 1400 and 1430) ... The church deserves in every respect to be
examined closely. It stands all alone and is dominated by its tall W tower
(126 ft high). |
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pictures below to enlarge |
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Richly decorated battlements.
Large sound-holes with complicated tracery. |
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Four-light transomed window to
the W. Doorway with a quatrefoil up jambs and arch. Two angels in the
spandrels. A frieze of shields above it and three niches around it.
Looking at the church from the W one sees with the tower the two identical
porches (north porch shown here), both two-storeyed
and both with flushwork battlements and turrets rising above the
roof. |
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In the front a niche between
two single-light windows on the S, a three-light window on the N. The
front of the N porch has moreover quatrefoils running up the jambs and
arch of the entrance (actually shields, not
quatrefoils), a big ogee gable, panelling to its l. and r., and
niches in two tiers l. and r. In the entrance halls of both porches
tierceron-vaults with bosses. ... Original traceried doors W, N, S, ...
The W doorway alone has a framing band of
quatrefoils as well (see previous row). |
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The N and S aisles have tall
three-light windows and again flushwork battlements. North shown here.
Pevsner does not explain the intersected tracery of two of the windows.
These are typical of c.1300 - but unlikely to be original remnants of an
earlier church? More likely to be Victorian replacements of damaged Perp
windows? And perhaps designed to remind us of an earlier church? At the
end of the 19th century the church was in a bad state of repair,
especially the windows and roof, and underwent a restoration. |
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S and N transepts, the latter
projecting two bays. The S transept has a four-light S window, the N
transept an E window with stepped transoms in the tracery above the heads
of the three lights. ... |
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In the
chancel angels as supporters. Seven-light E window. ... |
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Interior with six-bay arcades.
The piers with four shafts and four hollows. Moulded four-centred arches.
Clerestory. Very tall tower arch. Roof with short arched braces. ...
Chancel roof boarded with bosses ... |
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FONT. On two steps. The
inscription records the donor (who died in 1489). The figures on the base
have been chopped off. Against the bowl the Seven Sacraments and the
Crucifixion. - FONT COVER. A very tall Perp canopy. Not completely
preserved, but very impressive with the remaining fin-like radially-set
members. The pulley on its big arm also survives and is connected with the
balcony in the tower. All Perp wood-carving. - PULPIT. Perp, but
back-panel, tester, and the three-decker arrangement Jacobean. |
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On the screen are depicted the
four Latin Doctors (Gregory, Jerome, Augustine and Ambrose) and some of
the Apostles. STALLS. Excellent, with outstandingly good minor carving.
Poppy-heads, faces and monsters on the arm-rests. On the misericords
flowers and faces , also good flowers on the supporting l. and r. pieces. |
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North transept. Wood panelling
from the restoration 1910-12. Beautifully panelled low-pitched transept
roofs. |
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