Brewood No. 1 / Breude

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design element - motifs

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2011 by Sjwells53 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brewood_font_01.JPG] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2011 by Sjwells53 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brewood_font_01.JPG] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1805256] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Brewood from the Shropshire Union Canal [...] This view from the canal is dominated by the spire of the parish church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and St Chad."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 32 January 2018 by Stephen McKay [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5672552] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph [undated] from the South Staffordshire Council, 2004 [www.staffs.gov.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 22 July 2004)

view of font in context - southwest side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Old font in parish church, St Mary and St Chad, Brewood, Staffordshire. Thought to be 16th century, it was thrown out in the 18th century and used in a garden until recovered and reinstalled in the 20th century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2011 by Sjwells53 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brewood_font_01.JPG] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05152BRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Chad

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Chad [a.k.a. Ceadda]

Church Location: Church Rd, Brewood, Stafford ST19 9BT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 5-7 kms NW of Wolverhampton, on the E banks of the Shropshire Union Canal, 13 km N of Wolverhampton18 km S of Stafford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Historical Region: Hundred of Cuttlestone -- formerly Staffordshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the churtch, in the SW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 16th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Burton Pye and the South Staffordshire Council, and to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for their photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Brewood [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ8808/brewood/] [accessed 8 July 2019; it reports a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Bond (1908) describes the font here as one of several "well meant fonts put up between the Reformation and the Rebellion". Described and illustrated in the South Staffordshire Council web site [www.staffs.gov.uk]: "Font with heavy base, funnel shaped bowl and simple roll moulded panels, probably late C16". Brian Andrews [s.d.] [www.puginfoundation.org], when describing the font at Gorey St. Michael's, in Ireland,: "a splendid baptismal font" designed by Pugin, "even if it has apparently spent around a century and a half out of doors along the sacristy. Its strong simple interpenetrating geometric forms bring to mind the font he designed for St Mary's, Brewood, Staffordshire, c. 1844" [NB: the two fonts are certainly not alike, the one at Gorey being discrete and designed along more Romanesque-like lines, and would not have deserved Bond's 'cold shoulder']. There is an oval motif with cruciform appendages that repeats on each panel of the basin. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ8834908663] notes: "Parish Church. Contains material of C13 and C16 and was thoroughly restored by G.E Street between 1878 and 1880 [...] font with heavy base, funnel shaped bowl and simple roll moulded panels, probably late C16". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 13th-century church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40' 32.1" N, 2° 10' 25.9" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

REFERENCES

Andrews, Brian, "St Michael the Archangel's Curch, Gorey, Ireland", [Pugin Foundation file]

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908