Bricklehampton No. 1 / Bricstelonestune
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: EXT SW digital photograph taken 15 June 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/851134] [accessed 15 October 2014]
EXT PORCH+PORTAL digital photograph taken 12 March 2011 by John Brightley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2420080] [accessed 15 October 2014]
FONT RECENT digital photograph taken by Tudor Barlow [https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5513/14323863999_a5e160de81_t.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2014]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/851134] [accessed 15 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
symbol - cross - 2
design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 2
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07338BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Bricklehampton and South Littleton [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: The Lane, Bricklehampton, Worcestershire WR10 3HJ
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Elmley Castle, 4 km SW of Evesham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore
Font Notes:
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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]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 566610 5770387
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.080045, -2.027971
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 4′ 48.16″ N, 2° 1′ 40.7″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Andrews, Francis Baugh, Memorials of Old Worcestershire, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1912, p. 107
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 172
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 4: 227
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 100