Great Bricett / Bricet Magna / Brieseta

There are six entries for [Great and Little] Bricett [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/great-and-little-bricett/] [accessed 8 November 2014], one of which, in the lordship of Ansketil, reports one church and church lands in it. The font here is noted and illustrated in Cautley (1938) and (1982). A square stone mounted baptismal font ornamented with arcades of different types on its sides: of the east and west sides the basin has a blind arcade of intersecting round arches (two-strand arch) the come to rest on columns provided with decorated capitals but no bases; the north and south sides of the basin have a blind arcade of trefoiled arches; the arch-heads of these two sides are very ornate, and rest on pillars with very elaborate capitals and bases; at the corners of the basin are broad single columns with very 'creative' capitals, some with with fancy waves and curls, others with animal heads (?) topped also with fancy foliage; one of theses corners of the basin shows a replacement stone and new carving. The plain square pedestal base and the rectangular plinth are probably of a a later date. The wooden cover has a box-like lower structure with openwork on the side panels, upon which are eight scroll ribs meeting at a turned knob below the cross finial. The area around Gt. Bricett has square fonts of this type, some of earlier dating perhaps.