Brighstone / Briccheston / Brightestone / Brightstone / Brixton / Brizteston

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2345204] [accessed 18 February 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1171325] [accessed 18 February 2020]

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design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2345204] [accessed 18 February 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2016 by Hassocks5489 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_the_Virgin's_Church,_Main_Road,_Brighstone_(May_2016)_(3).JPG] [accessed 19 February 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the new flooring; the beautiful tiles that framed the foot of the font have been replaced; the lower base of the font has been 'cleaned'

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2345204] [accessed 18 February 2020]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: notice the beautiful tiles that framed the font in 1999; they were later removed, as can be seen in the 2011 photograph of the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1171325] [accessed 18 February 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06783BRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Rectory Ln, Brighstone, Newport PO30 4QH, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Isle of Wight, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B3399, about 10 km ESE of Freshwater, 11 km SW of Newport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth

Historical Region: Hundred of West Medine --formerly Hampshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Brighstone in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. [NB: C&H use the form "Brightstone"]. In Cox (1911): "The font, of late 15th century style, is, I believe, of the restoration date." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "Of the 12th-century church nothing remains beyond the north aisle arcade […], and of the 13th-century building the only evidence is the west door, evidently not in situ […] The font is of the 15th century with octagonal bowl and shaft, both panelled on each face and ending in a square base." In Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "Octagonal Perp[endicular], with small cusped panels." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SZ4290882696] notes: "Parish Church. C12 north arcade, C14 south arcade and lower stages of the tower. The upper stage of the tower and angle buttresses are C15. The south aisle, south porch and chancel are early C16. The spire is of 1720 and the north aisle was rebuilt in 1852. [...] C14 font, octagonal with plain cusped arches on pillar and bowl." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.642222, -1.394167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 38′ 32″ N, 1° 23′ 39″ W

UTM: 30U 613542 5611270

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Cox, John Charles, Isle of Wight: its churches and religious houses, London: G. Allen & Sons, 1911

Lloyd, David W., The Isle of Wight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006