Brodsworth / Brodesuurde / Brodesworde

There are two entries for Brodsworth [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5007/brodsworth/] [accessed 15 October 2018], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Armitage (1905) notes: "The font is of Norman form, octagonal and rude." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Morris (1932): "Plain octagonal font." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5067307230] notes: "Church. C11 nave, additions of c1200, C15 and C19, restoration 1874. [...] C14-C15 font beneath tower: octagonal with wood corona." Octagonal mounted baptismal font consisting of a basin with plain vertical sides and slightly rounded underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and a square lower base. The only ornamentation is the centre ring at the joining of underbowl and stem, and the arrises on the lower part of the stem where the octagonal shape becomes square to match the shape of the lower base. The lead lining appears recent and covers the whole of the upper surface of the basin rim. Octagonal wooden lid consisting of two lower box-like volumes on which is raised a third one with the usual ribs of the Jacobean-type covers; these ribs meet at the multi-level knob finial; the cover is painted in a light pastel colour, not very becoming. A kneeling stone has been added to one side of the lower base.