Brandesburton / Brantisburtone / Burtun / Bvrtvn

There are two entries for Bandesburton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA1147/brandesburton/] [accessed 27 July 2014], one of which, in the lordship of the canons of Beverley St. John, and the tenancy of the archbishop of York St. Peter, reports a priest in it, but no church. A font here is noted in Glynne's 30 April 1872 visit: "The font has a plain octagonal bowl on a similar stem." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) notes: "There may have been a church at Brandesburton in 1086, when a clerk was recorded on the archbishop of York's estate, [...] and there was certainly one by 1251, when the first known rector was mentioned. [...] Chancel, arcades, aisles, and tower all seem to be of 13th-century origin [...] 12th-century doorway in the chancel and fragments of similar date rebuilt into the tower and south aisle wall"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA1194247643] notes: "Church. C12 chancel, C13 nave aisles and west tower, late C14 south porch. Restored 1892 [...] Octagonal font reset on C19 octagonal column and base." The basin has tall vertical sides the only decoration on which is a thin groove marking the upper rim; plain underbowl chamfer; on an octagonal pedestal base with angle mouldings at each end, and a moulded lower base, also octagonal. Polygonal plinth with kneeling extension. Wooden cover consisting of a box-like octagonal platform with an octagonal pyramidal top of open-work. There is no apparent raising mechanism for the cover but there is a metal ring above the ball finial, presumably to connect the rope or chain that would have helped to raise and lower it.