Salle, Norfolk, UK
Church of St Peter and Paul,
Monument to John Fountayne †1671. North transept, east wall. Marble. Attributed to William Stanton.
A hipped Latin inscription with a winged angel head is framed by black Ionic pilasters and set under a swan neck pediment, with an extravagant cartouche with the family coat of arms, crowned by an elephant. The architectural frame resembles monuments by the prolific London sculptor William Stanton, whose style can be found across the country in many comparable unsigned monuments, perhaps from his workshop. Stanton’ monuments ranged in cost from 10 to 64 pounds. This must be near the bottom of the range by contrast with that to Dean Fairfax in Norwich Cathedral.
The inscription describes Fountayne, who died aged 70, as the eldest son of Arthur Fountayne of (Wood) Dalling in Norfolk and as a sergeant at law. Salle is covered in one of the later volumes of Blomefield, completed rather arbitrarily by Charles Parkin, whose account of Fountayne skips many generations, but notes that he had inherited the Salle estate through his marriage to Mary Brigg.
Francis Blomefield, 'Eynford Hundred: Salle', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 269-276; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 655; William Stanton bio. in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation (published 2009)
detail of cartouche with coat of arms and elephant
Salle, Norfolk, UK
Church of St Peter and Paul,
Monument to John Fountayne †1671. North transept, east wall. Marble. Attributed to William Stanton.
A hipped Latin inscription with a winged angel head is framed by black Ionic pilasters and set under a swan neck pediment, with an extravagant cartouche with the family coat of arms, crowned by an elephant. The architectural frame resembles monuments by the prolific London sculptor William Stanton, whose style can be found across the country in many comparable unsigned monuments, perhaps from his workshop. Stanton’ monuments ranged in cost from 10 to 64 pounds. This must be near the bottom of the range by contrast with that to Dean Fairfax in Norwich Cathedral.
The inscription describes Fountayne, who died aged 70, as the eldest son of Arthur Fountayne of (Wood) Dalling in Norfolk and as a sergeant at law. Salle is covered in one of the later volumes of Blomefield, completed rather arbitrarily by Charles Parkin, whose account of Fountayne skips many generations, but notes that he had inherited the Salle estate through his marriage to Mary Brigg.
Francis Blomefield, 'Eynford Hundred: Salle', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 269-276; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 655; William Stanton bio. in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation (published 2009)
detail of cartouche with coat of arms and elephant