Brobury / Brodbury / Brocheberie

There is an entry for Crobury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO3444/brobury/] [accessed 26 August 2018]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it]. Bond (1908) describes and illustrates a font here: the basin is bucket-shaped and plain, with damage evident at opposite ends of the upper rim where the cover hardware has been forcefully removed; the base has two volumes: a round upper one on a broader square, with leave motifs at the angles. Bond (ibid.) dates it as Norman, but "quite late". [NB: the caption under the illustration for this font in Bond (ibid) reads "Brobury", but the index locorum has "Brodbury"]. Described and illustrated in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font[...]: tapering cylindrical bowl with moulded base and square plinth with spur-ornaments, late 12th-century." The entry for this church in the Herefordshire Through Time site [https://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/Monument?ID=4049] [accessed 26 August 2018] notes: "The chancel only remains and this is also abandoned. The tracery forms are c1300. In the south wall a tomb recess with two orders of fleurons, 14th century. [...] The walls are of local sandstone rubble with dressings of the same material; the roof is covered with stone slates. The chancel was built c.1300, probably on the site of an earlier structure. In 1873 the former nave was pulled down and the existing west wall of the chancel was built. The roof is probably of the 17th century and has three cambered tie-beams with plain struts; it is ceiled at the collar. [...] Fine, plain, bucket-shaped font with rather clumsy spurs or gryfs at the four corners. The only other fonts in the county with this Norman decoration are at Stanford Bishop and Whitney-on-Wye. [...] Redundant application to convert and extend, 1981. [...] Tower built at one end (red), for sale again. [...] In October 1970 the church was declared redundent by the Diocese of Hereford and was sold into private ownership. It was subsequently modified to living accommodation. The font was transferred to Upton Cressett Church, Shropshire and the candlesticks to Cusop Church. The alter table, church plate and the bell were transferred to Bredwardine Church. The parish registers were deposited in the Hereford Record Office." [NB: Pauline Eclles, in a caption to her 8 March 2009 photograph of two fonts in Yatton Chapel notes: "Two fonts in Yatton Chapel, near Perrystone Hill, Herefordshire, England. Both are believed to be 12th-century. The smaller, which has some damage, has always been in the chapel. The larger was moved here when the parish church of St Mary Magdalene in Brobury ceased to be used for worship."]. The entry for Yatton Chapel in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO6270130392] notes a second font there: "with plain cylindrical bowl,C12,from disused Church at Brobury." The entry for Yatton Chapel in the CRSBI (2018) includes the two fonts in that church; on the Brobury font it notes: "At the W end of the nave, on the N side is a tub-shaped font bowl on a roll-moulded spurred base. It is not symmetrically cut and the bowl has the remains of lock fixings on the rim at E and W. The bowl is unlined. The main decoration is on the rounded spurs of the base. The NE spur is is carved with four parallel ridges radiating out from the bowl, and the other three have recessed ovals, perhaps intended for leaves. There is no plinth or step and the base sites in the uneven floor of the nave."