Brompton on Swale / Brompton-on-Swale / Brunton
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view of basin - interior
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 14 November 2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01986BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul
Church Notes: the present church is modern, built in 1838
Church Address: Richmond Road, Brompton on Swale, Richmond DL10 7HE, UK -- Tel.: A01748 811748
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1(M), 5 km E of Richmond, 16 km NW of Northallerton
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan [in Domesday], North Riding of Yorkshire
Font Notes:
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There is an entry from Brompton [on Swale] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2199/brompton-on-swale/] [accesssed 5 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. Noted in Morris (1931) as a "circular E[arly] E[nglish] font." The English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: SE2155799685] mentions no font in it. The baptismal font here, which may have undergone some re-tooling, consists of a plain cylindrical basin supported on a central shaft and four outer columns, all raised on a square lower base. There is plain round cover that appears made of the same stone as the font.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 586805 6027980
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.39217, -1.6631
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 23′ 31.81″ N, 1° 39′ 47.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: stone
Apparatus: no
Notes: ring handle
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, p. 87