Bricklehampton No. 1 / Bricstelonestune

There is an entry for Bricklehampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9842/bricklehampton/] [accessed 15 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) notes a Norman doorway in this church, a chapelry of Pershore, but does not mention a font in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The font is described in Andrews (1912) as "an enormous bowl on two steps as old as the font itself. It has slightly retreating sides, and is ornamented at four points on the big plain surface with small devices." Noted and illustrated in the Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924): "The church has been so extensively restored and altered as to leave few traces of its history. It is probably a 12th-century building largely reconstructed in the following century [...] The 12th-century font is a massive circular stone bowl tapering towards the base; on two sides are crosses in circles and on the other two are raised stars." Described in Pevsner (1968): "Norman, round, with tapering sides. On it two crosses and two rosettes (cf. South Littleton and Bishampton)". Ditto in Brooks & Pevsner (2007). Noted in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Brtain in Ireland's entry for Bishampton as one of two "less complicated fonts with similar decoration at Bricklehampton and South Littleton, Worcestershire] [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/wo/bisha/index.htm] [accessed 24 June 2009]. The bucket-shaped basin is mounted on two square steps and has a flat wooden cover. [cf. Index entry for Bricklehampton No. 2 for a holy-water stoup of the same period in this church]