Bramley / Bramley nr. Basingstoke / Bromelega / Bromle / Bromlegh / Bromleye / Brumelai / Brummeleghe

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - painting

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view of church interior - painting

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view of church interior - painting

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06744BRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: The Street, Bramley, Hampshire RG26 5DF, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 8 km N of Basingstoke, 16 km S of Reading

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Basingstoke

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of www.southernlife.org.uk, for his photograph of this church and font

Church Notes: Noted by Chris Hayley in Southern Life [www.southernlife.org.uk/bramley.htm] [accessed 13 July 2008]: ''The church is world famous for its murals, one actually depicts the murder of Thomas à Becket and is thought to have been completed around 50 years after the actual murder. The stain glass comes from the 14th and 16th centuries and the south transept glass was buried in the moat of Beaurepaire House and saved during the Civil War. This ancient house belonged to the Brocas family. Another of the murals is a 15th century one of St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers and though this has nearly faded away there is a photo of it on display to show what it was like and if you look carefully at the painting m small fishes and a couple of mermaids can be see in the stream. There are also two more pictures that are decorated with flower and are reckoned to be from the 13th century and shows a bearded man with a stick and a Madonna with her child on her knee'' [some of Chris Hayley's low-resolution images of the interior paintings have been added to BSI -- the original digital photographs were destroyed in a fire [information source: email from Chris Hayley to BSI]]

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There is an entry for this Bramley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6458/bramley/] [accessed 13 December 2015]; it mentions a church in it. The Antiquary (issue No.31, vol. 6, July 1882: 28)`reports on a 25 May visit of the North Hants Archaeological and Field Club to the parish church of Bramley, where they note ''the font of ancient Sussex marble''. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period made of Purbeck marble. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There was a church in the parish at the time of the Domesday Survey. [...] The nave and chancel were built on their present plan, with no masonry division, late in the 12th century, the south transept [...] The font is probably contemporary with the earliest parts of the church. It has a shallow square Purbeck bowl, much defaced, the sides of which are decorated with fluting, rough cheveron ornament and a grotesquely drawn agnus dei. The bowl is supported on a central shaft with a modern capital and four restored angle shafts." In Holmes (2004), also as Norman. [NB: only the very weathered [and re-cut?] basin and the cover appear to be medieval; the rest is probably a Victorian reconstruction]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "the capital of the central stem and the subsidiary shafts are modern" [source given: VCH. 4, 1911]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.326637, -1.076405

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 19′ 35.89″ N, 1° 4′ 35.06″ W

UTM: 30U 634022 5687906

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: Medieval?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-06-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975