Broomfield / Broomfield nr. TauntonBrunfelle

There is an entry for this Broomfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2232/broomfield/] [accessed 3 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1958) writes: 'Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with the familiar quatrefoils." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "There was probably a church at Broomfield in the late 11th century [...] Maud Arundel, wife of Gerbert de Percy, gave Broomfield church to Wells cathedral c. 1175 at the request of Bishop Reginald to endow a prebend [...] Broomfield had two priests c. 1175 [...] The church of ST. MARY AND ALL SAINTS, apparently so called in 1443 as in the 20th century, [...] but known simply as All Saints in 1313"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. Baptismal font of the 15th century; the octagonal basin has eight very regular side panels, each ornamented with a quatrefoil window and a four-petal rosette in its centre; chamfered underbowl, also octagonall the stem of the base is octagonal as well, each side ornamented with two Gothic arches, one above the other; the lower base has the same octagonal shape and is narrower than the basin; all arrises and separations of the different panels and volumes of this font are made in the form of a rounded moulding of very even dimensions all over. The wooden low-pyramid cover has also an octagonal shape.