Bromyard / Bromgerbe

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: photographed 26 July 1982 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - roll moulding - double

Image Source: photographed 26 July 1982 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - scroll

Image Source: photographed 26 July 1982 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - patterns - zigzag

Image Source: photographed 26 July 1982 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

symbol - tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permssion

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permssion

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "The south doorway, St Peter's Church, Bromyard. A minster existed on this site around 840 AD - it is possible the figure of St Peter over the doorway is from the pre-conquest period."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2008 by Pauline Eccles [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/807141] [accessed 25 October 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman arch over the main door to St Peter's church, Bromyard."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2011 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2602589] [acessed 25 October 2014]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: carving above the south portal: in the centre, Peter holding two keys in his ranght hand, a book in his left -- on the right, a Greek cross in a circle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2011 by Matthew Wells [ww.flickr.com/photos/coastermadmatt/5923875958/] [accessed 25 October 2014]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2008 by Pauline Eccles [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/807131] [accessed 25 October 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: 17th-century sketch by Dineley, in Dineley (1867- )

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 52)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 02505BRO

Church/Chapel: Paris Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Street, Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4DZ

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Bromyard is on the A44, 21 km NE of Hereford, about half way from Worcester to Leominster. [Coordinates: 52° 11′ 26.88″ N, 2° 30′ 24.48″ W 52.1908, -2.5068]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Plegelgete

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle

Century and Period: 12th century (late) [basin only] [composite font], Norman [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bromyard Group / Dymock Group [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes and to Tim Marlow for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Bromyard [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6554/bromyard/] [accessed 25 October 2014]; it reports church lands in it, therefore probably a church and priests, though not explicitly mentioned, the latter except as part lords in 1086. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports simply "a curious font" in this church. A font in this church is recorded with an illustration in Dineley (aka Dingley, 1867-) but the font it illustrates does not correspond to the one described in later sources [NB: Dineley's sketch was done in the late (?) 17th century].. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font: In S, aisle -- barrel-shaped bowl [...] with double roll-moulding round middle, band of crude scrolls and foliage above, and of cheverons below, late 12th-century, stem and base modern." Described and illustrated in Gethyn-Jones (1979): barrel-shaped font; the basin has two registers of ornamentation: the upper one has the foliage and curling tendril-like motif which often appears in pre-Conquest standing crosses and manuscript illumination; this band occupies about 2/3 of the upper register; it also contains a very crudely executed simple version of the "Dymock group" tree figure; the lower register, separated from the upper by a double hoop, has a a flat zig-zag pattern. Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/he/bromy/index.htm] [accessed 4 September 2008] as a font that "predates the present church". The CRSBI (ibid.) remarks on Zarnecki's unpublished thesis' notes: "The Bromyard font and a group of tympana with the similar Tree of Life motif were discussed by Zarnecki (1950, 223ff) where they were named 'The Bromyard Group'" [cf. Gethin-Jones' renaming above]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.190896, -2.505514

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 27.23″ N, 2° 30′ 19.85″ W

UTM: 30U 533802 5782386

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: barrel-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2008-09-04 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Dineley [Dingley], Thomas, History from marble, [London?]: Printed for the Camden Society, 1867-

Gethyn-Jones, Eric, The Dymock School of Sculpture, London: Phillimore, 1979

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Zarnecki, George, "Regional Schools of English Sculpture in the Twelfth Century: the Southern School and the Herefordshire School", London, 1950