Broughton / Brochtune / Broctona / Brouctone / Broughton nr. Huntingdon

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

view of church exterior - tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "West tower and spire of All Saints parish church, Broughton, Cambridgeshire, (formerly Huntingdonshire), seen from the west".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosser1954, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2013 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broughton_Church_tower.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 06856BRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: School Road, Broughton, Huntingdon, PE28 3AT
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A141, 9-10 km NNE of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
There is an entry for this Broughton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey under Huntingdonshire [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2877/broughton/] [accessed 6 November 2017]; it mentions both a priest and a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) mentions the font here as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period; the basin is square and ornamented with shallow arcading. The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "A church was returned with the manor in the Domesday Survey. [...] There is now nothing remaining of the church which existed here in the time of the Domesday Survey (1086). A 12th-century church, of which there alone remains the plinth below the chancel arch and a small portion of the wall on either side, consisted probably of a chancel and nave only. [...] The font, which is of the early part of the 13th century, has a square bowl with rather rudely cut arcading of three round-headed arches springing from columns with cushion capitals."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 696014 5807208

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907