Brize Norton / Brimes Norton / Brunesnorton / Brynes Norton / Brysenorton / Norton Broyne / Norton Brun / Nortone / Suthnorton
Image copyright © Phil Holmes, 2003
Permission received (e-mail of 2 January 2007)
Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Holmes, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in Phil Holmes [www.brizenorton.org.uk/community] [accessed 2 January 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 2 January 2007)
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Holmes, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in Phil Holmes [www.brizenorton.org.uk/community] [accessed 2 January 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 2 January 2007)
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: note the font just to the left (west) of the south entrance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Holmes, 2003
Image Source: plan in Phil Holmes [www.brizenorton.org.uk/community] [accessed 2 January 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 2 January 2007)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxfordshire Church Illustrations, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/187912465/] [accessed 10 September 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01026BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Britius
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Brictius [aka Brice of Tours] [originally dedicated to St. Peter]
Church Notes: church here documented 1074; present building chiefly 13thC, with some 12thC remains; restored late-19thC
Church Address: Station Road, Brize Norton, Carterton OX18 3PW, UK -- Tel.: (01993) 846996
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4477, just NE of Carterton, 17 km W of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Additional Comments: permission req'd of Phil Holmes by email (2 Jan 2007) -- rec'd same day [cf. BSI print file]
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Phil Holmes, of www.brizenorton.org.uk/community, and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for their photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 598893 5735981
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.76597, -1.5669
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 45′ 57.49″ N, 1° 34′ 0.84″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged -- entry 181] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 488
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 76