Bromham / Bronham / Bruham / Bruneham [Domesday] (Beds.)

Results: 4 records

design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: pointed

design element - patterns - tracery

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oliver White, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2005 by Oliver White [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/85974] [accessed 10 September 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/330073] [accessed 10 September 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 01266BRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Owen
Church Patron Saints: St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Location: Bromham, Bedford Borough MK43 8HH
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A428, 5 km NNW of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Buckelowe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Willey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church Notes: original church here 13thC
There are four entries for this Bromham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0151/bromham/] [accessed 10 September 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period in this church. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church appears to have been built in the 13th century, the nave arcade and the walling of the north aisle being of this date; the west tower is of the 15th century [...] The font is of clunch and dates from the 15th century, but has been restored; it is octagonal with traceried panels on an octagonal panelled shaft and base." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, Perp, with pointed quatrefoils etc. and tracery."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.149786, -0.519422
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 59.23″ N, 0° 31′ 9.92″ W
UTM: 30U 669711 5780600

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-08-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968