Brooke / Broc / Brock

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by Christine Johnstone [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3078920] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The path to St Peter's Church, Brooke. In a county of interesting churches, Brooke is one of the most delightful. It is a remote place with this attractive approach down a grass path. The interior was furnished in Elizabethan times which is a very unusual period for restoration."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2011 by Marathon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2452309] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover bt the pillar of the north arcade

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2012 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3164595] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01831BRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Lane, Brooke, Rutland, LE15 8RE

Country Name: England

Location: Rutland, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just W of the A6003 and a few kms S of Oakham, about 40 km W of Peterborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborugh

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the third pillar of the N aisle, in the W of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman

Cognate Fonts: The font at Edith Weston, also in Rutland

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha], for the photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for this Brooke in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a rectangular tub-like font ornamented with a blind arcade. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "No dependent chapel at Brooke is mentioned in Domesday Book, where, however, the church and priest of Oakham are recorded. [...] From the architectural evidence there was a chapel at Brooke in the first half of the 12th century, when it was dependent on Oakham [...] and was served by a chaplain. [...] The original building was probably erected in the first half of the 12th century and would consist of a small square-ended chancel and an aisleless nave covering the area of the present one. About 1190– 1200, a north aisle was thrown out and the existing arcade of three semicircular arches inserted. [...] The tower was added in the 13th century [...] The font is of late 12th-century date, and consists of a rectangular bowl with arcaded sides in high relief, the round arches resting on circular shafts with moulded bases and volute capitals. [...] The pyramidal oak cover is of late 16th or early 17th century date." In Pevsner (1984): "Norman, square, with blank arches on colonnettes." The baptismal font appears monolithic but of two volumes: the upper volume is a quadrangular [square?] basin with vertical sides, each decorated with three blind round-headed arches; the lower volumes, slightly broader, is also quadrangular [square?] and with vertical sides, but these are plain. Wooden pyramidal cover with square base, the sides with simple flat moulding decoration; knob finial; date unknown.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.642409, -0.746708

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 32.67″ N, 0° 44′ 48.15″ W

UTM: 30U 652455 5834876

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: quadrangular (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-13 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, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984

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