Brinton / Brinington / Bruntuna [Domesday]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859337] [accessed 20 January 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859337] [accessed 20 January 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Photo caption: ""The east window of the 17c or later, a closure after the chancel had collapsed""

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 June 1995 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Brinton St Andrew's church from SE [7206] 1995-06-18.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [ww.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brinton/brinton.htm] [accessed 20 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: notice the top of the font, in the foreground, left side, by the north arcade, and the holy-water stoup, wall-mounted by the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [ww.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brinton/brinton.htm] [accessed 20 January 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859337] [accessed 20 January 2014]

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital photograph July 2006 taken by Simon Knott [ww.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brinton/brinton.htm] [accessed 20 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01696BRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Brinton, Norfolk, NR24 2QH

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 6 km WSW of Holt, 17 km ENE of Fakenham, 20 km SW of Cromer

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Holt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the N arcade

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photographs of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in June 1995

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Brinton appears in one entry in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0335/brinton/] [accessed 20 January 2014] and shows one church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "B[rinton] [w]as a beruite belonging to William Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford's capital manor of Thornage, belonging to the see, in the Saxon age, and is accounted for under that town [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew, and is a rectory". The present font is listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a stone baptismal font of the Decorated period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928: 31) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. [NB: location assumed to be Brington]. Noted in Persner & Wilson (1997): "Simple, octagonal, C15". Although the font has plain basin sides tehere are graded mouldings on the underbowl and the lower base, the wole base being also octagonal. The plain wooden cover, octagonal and flat, is modern. The basin sides show a large are of repair, showing a large cracked area repaired in the past. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.880216, 1.027708

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 48.78″ N, 1° 1′ 39.75″ E

UTM: 31U 367280 5860767

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

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

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928