Brize Norton / Brimes Norton / Brunesnorton / Brynes Norton / Brysenorton / Norton Broyne / Norton Brun / Nortone / Suthnorton

There are three entries for [Brize] Norton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2907/brize-norton/] [accessed 10 January 2018], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "there is a good N[orman] font with attached shafts". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font the basin of which is decorated with an "arcade in relief, imitating closely the structural arcade of the period". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman. Round, with a blind arcade of arches on flat rectangular shafts. The base is modern." The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 15, 2006) notes: "In the Anglo-Saxon period Brize Norton presumably fell within the jurisdiction of Bampton's minster church. A separate church was established probably by 1074, and was given to Eynsham abbey in the late 12th century [...] The earliest fabric dates from the 12th century, [...] by which time the church enjoyed baptismal rights (the font is 12th-century) [...] Probably from its foundation until at least the mid 16th century the church was dedicated to St Peter". The font consists of a round. almost cylindrical, basin decorated with a shallow-relief arcade of round arches all around, raised on a cluster of one central shaft and four outer colonnettes on a truncated-pyramidal lower base, the latter modern; there is a metal brace around the upper basin side; the wooden font cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern. Illustrated in the Parish web site [www.brizenorton.org.uk/community]. A recent photograph of this font appears in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/187912465/] [accessed 10 September 2007]