Brayton / Burtone

There is an entry for Brayton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE6030/brayton/] [accessed 18 March 2015]; it mentions a church, a priest and one hide of church lands in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's 6 April 1825 visit: "The font is plain and circular." Notes in 'Yorkshire churches', in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (vol. 12, 1893: 447) with a similar description. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early baptismal stone font consisting of a round basin mounted on a pedestal base. Noted in Morris (1932): Disused, circular font, perfectly plain, and with staples for locking." [NB: as indicated in the CRSBI entry below, there are trace lines to guide the carving of an arcade of the sides of the basin; never completed]. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "There is a plain cylindrical font of squat proportion, with a narrow chamfer at the bottom. It is set on a later drum and square plinth, and stands in the NE corner of the N aisle. The rim is plain and horizontal. Internally the sides are vertical and then rounded into a gently hollowed base. The font is lined. There are several places where it has been damaged, or perhaps the stone was faulty, however it is perfectly serviceable and still occasionally used. The vertical sides are covered with close vertical tooling, and on close inspection and in good lighting can be seen also to have a network of setting-out lines which mark the characteristic 12th c. font decoration of intersected arcading. The photos show this well, and a tracing of part of the surface was enclosed when a report was first submitted. The setting-out marking is as follows: Four horizontal lines, cut in short lengths and not on a lathe. These lines are at 0.13, 0.17, 0.295-0.3 and 0.333m below the top edge. On the top horizontal line, a series of parallel semicircles with radii of 0.1m and 0.075m set out the intersecting arches. The overlap is shown with the curve rising to the right always passing in front of that rising to the left. The centre point can be seen in some cases as a small open pit on the top line. Between the top and bottom pairs of parallel lines, steep diagonal strokes mark the position of the capitals and bases to the arcades. Harder to see, because they run with the vertical tooling, are the lines marking out the columns." Harman & Pevsner (2017) write: "Plain circular Norman bowl, with faintly incised intersected arcading left uncarved."