Brooke / Bro / Broc / Brock / Broke
Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
Results: 21 records
B01: sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: on the north-west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: sacrament - holy orders
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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B03: sacrament - marriage
Scene Description: on the south-east of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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B04: sacrament - eucharist
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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B05: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: on the north-east side of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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B06: sacrament - penance
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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B07: sacrament - extreme unction
Scene Description: on the south-west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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B08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. SE panel Confirmation, E panel Mass"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Brooke St Peter's church font east side [5801] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: 136)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
view of basin - east side
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. SE panel Confirmation, E panel Mass"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Brooke St Peter's church font east side [5801] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
angel - demi-figure - holding object - 8
![scrolls, chalice, chrismatory, book and round dish [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090718016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: scrolls, chalice, chrismatory, book and round dish [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2006 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - south door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Brooke St Peter's church south door to nave [5803] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Brooke St Peter's church 13c south door [5802] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Round tower lower part Norman"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 28 May 1977 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Brooke St Peter's church tower and porch [5800] 1977-05-28.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph March 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brooke/brooke.htm] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
human figure - standing - 8
Scene Description: unidentified; badly damaged; each in a niche of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cautley, 1949
Image Source: Cautley (1949: 136)
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00737BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1466?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at nearby Seeting and Sloley. Other Seven-sacrament fonts in this area -- a mini-model, copy or replica of this font made ca. 1850 [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: round-tower church
Church Address: 105 The St, Brooke, Norwich NR15 1JX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1508 558479
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A146, about 11 kms SSE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Henstead [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Loddon
Additional Comments: damaged font / altered font [cf. Font notes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1086 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Brooke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM2999/brooke/] [accessed 28 February 2014] and it mentions a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Peter, and the rectory was appropriated to the chamberlain of St. Edmund's Bury, a vicarage being settled [...] John Grey Bishop of Norwich appropriated the rectory to the chamberlain, after the decease of Hubert de Brock, rector, saving an honourable support for the vicar, to be assigned by the Bishops of Norwich." [NB: John de Gray (+1214) [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11541] [accessed 28 February 2014]]. The present font is noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "a font elaborately sculptured with emblems of teh seven Roman sacraments." Described in Bond (1908) as a Seven-sacrament font with "remains of rich gilding and varied colouring" still on it; he also identifies a Sanctus bell among the scenes. Illustrated in Cautley (1949). Studied in detail in Nichols (1994), who points out the misplacement of the basin on the base in the pre-19th century reconstruction of the font; she lists the basin scenes in the following order: 1)Baptism; 2)Orders; 3)Matrimony; 4)Eucharist; 5)Confirmation; 6)Penance; 7)Extreme Unction; 8)Crucifixion. Nichols (ibid.) also records the bad defacement of the iconography and the permanence of excellent colour on it. The underbowl has angels holdings scrolls with worn-out inscriptions alternating with others holding, each, a book, a chalice, a chrismatory and a round dish. The pedestal of the base has eight niches, each occupied by a figure standing on a ledge or platform; the lower base is slightly wider and also octagonal. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note: "Money was left for it [i.e., the font] in 1466 and 1468, and they mention "an odd little model of the same font made, according to tradition, in Italy in 1850". The 15th-century font is fully illustrated in Knott (2006).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in May 1977
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 390289 5822925
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.545339, 1.382096
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 32′ 43.22″ N, 1° 22′ 55.55″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the scrolls held by the angels
Inscription Text: [texts not available]
Inscription Notes: the inscriptions are reported worn out in Nichols (1992)
REFERENCES
- Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955, p. 200 fn3
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 105-108 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78637] [accessed 28 February 2014]
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 253, 259, 263
- Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949, p. 23, 24, 25 and ill. on p. 136
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 168
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50835] [accessed 22 January 2007]
- Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994, p. 4, 6, 71, 72, 76, 82, 89, 106, 162, 173n, 182, 209, 223. 224, 225, 234, 242n, 243, 246, 261, 263, 267, 272, 277, 287, 289, 298, 307-309, 315-316, 331, 345,
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 222