Brooke / Bro / Broc / Brock / Broke

Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

Results: 21 records

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B01: sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: on the north-west side of the basin

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

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

B03: sacrament - marriage

Scene Description: on the south-east of the basin

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

B04: sacrament - eucharist

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

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

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

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

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

B08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

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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angel - demi-figure - holding object - 8

Scene Description: scrolls, chalice, chrismatory, book and round dish [cf. FontNotes]

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

human figure - standing - 8

Scene Description: unidentified; badly damaged; each in a niche of the pedestal base

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"

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

view of church exterior - south door

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

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]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Round tower lower part Norman"

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 exterior - southwest view

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

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 west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end

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

view of font

Image Source: Cautley (1949: 136)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the publisher

view of font - east side

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 - east side

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Seven sacrament font. SE panel Confirmation, E panel Mass"

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 - west side

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00737BRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 105 The St, Brooke, Norwich NR15 1JX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1508 558479

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Date: ca. 1466?

Century and Period: 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]

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

Church Notes: round-tower church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.545339, 1.382096

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 43.22″ N, 1° 22′ 55.55″ E

UTM: 31U 390289 5822925

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: the inscriptions are reported worn out in Nichols (1992)

Inscription Location: on the scrolls held by the angels

Inscription Text: [texts not available]

REFERENCES

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cautley, Henry Munro, Norfolk Churches, Ipswich: Norman Adlard & Co., 1949

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-07-17 00:00:00. 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

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999