Salle
| Salle | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 Salle church, behind the cricket ground | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG109248 |
| Location: | 52°46’48"N, 1°7’35"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 50 |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR10 |
| Dialling code: | 01603 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broadland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broadland and Fakenham |
Salle is a small village in Norfolk, a mile and a half to the south is the market town of Reepham, in the Eynsford Hundred.
The village is famed for its fine, huge late mediæval church, which retains the lower part of its rood screen
The name, pronounced Saul, derives from "Sallow Wood" — sallow referring to willow in Norfolk dialect.[1] It is sometimes written, now archaically, Sall. The parish was renamed from "Sall" to "Salle" on 18 October 1994.[2]
The civil parish had a population of 50 in 21 households at the 2001 census.
The Salle Park Estate owns much of the village and surrounding agricultural land.
St Peter and St Paul's Church
The church, which dates from the first part of the 15th century, is an exceptionally complete Perpendicular building.[3] It is huge for the size of the village – several lords of local manors, including the Boleyn family, vied with each other to fund the building of the church. There are many brasses, including to members of the Boleyn family.
The church retains some of its mediæval stained glass in the east window and in the south transept south window, and there is a 15th-century pulpit. The font has a tall, extravagant Perpendicular style canopy, with a lifting crane sprung from the ringing gallery.[4]
The 130-feet tower faced with Barnack stone and flint has been described as "the most perfectly composed of all late mediæval Norfolk towers", and as "one of the first of the great East Anglian towers".[5]
St Peter and St Paul's church was never collegiate, so it is peculiar that it has twenty-six 15th-century misericords. These are placed 13 on each side of the choir.
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View showing the belfry timbers, the font cover and general view east -
View west from sanctuary, showing misericords -
The fine Perpendicular-style tower, 130 feet tall -
Font cover and crane -
15th-century pulpit -
Roof detail
History
Two places, or manors, in the parish are mentioned in the Domesday Book — Sall and Stinton. The latter is considered a lost or deserted settlement, which was in the vicinity of what is now Salle Place.
In 1999, Salle was the winner of Norfolk's Best Kept Village competition for villages with a population of under 500 people.
Sport and society
The Reepham and Salle Cricket Club have their home ground by the church in Salle.[6] The Lynton White Institute is a large grade II listed community hall located by the cricket ground, which is used by the cricket club and also for other local groups.[7]
There is a waymarked circular cycle trail along lanes around the parish and its immediate environs — the Salle Cycle Loop.[8]
There is a small brewery in the parish — the All Day Brewing Company.[9]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Salle) |
References
- ↑ History, Salle Farms Co, 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
- ↑ "Norwich Registration District". UKBMD. https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/norwich.html. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides
- ↑ Norfolk Churches Retrieved 22 June 2014
- ↑ "Thames & Hudson Publishers | Essential illustrated art books | Fifty English Steeples | The Finest Mediæval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England". http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Fifty_English_Steeples/9780500343142.
- ↑ Reepham and Salle Cricket Club
- ↑ Salle Farms Co The Lynton White Institute
- ↑ [1] pages 19 and 20
- ↑ All Day Brewing Company