Bretforton / Bratfortune
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 26 September 2008
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 26 September 2008
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 26 September 2008
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 26 September 2008
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph by Ben Read in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1160/] [accessed 4 November 2014]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes 26 September 2008
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 07339BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: 64 Main Street, Bretforton, Worcestershire, WR11 7J
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km E of Evesham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fishborough [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Blackenhurst
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [composite font], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Bretforton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0943/bretforton/] [accessed 4 November 2014], one of which, in the lordship of the Abbey St. Mary at of Evesham, reports a church in it. The Ecclesiologist (August 1866, no. 175: 249) includes a report of a June 26 excursion by the Worcester Diocesan Architectural Society in which the church at Bretforton St. Leonard's was visted and the font noted: "a plain circular bowl of Norman date". Miller (1890) reports: "The font is Norman and cylindrical". The font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a being from the Norman period. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note: "Plain Norman, with cover dated 1721." The CRSBI (2014) notes that "The stem is possibly later, but the bowl and base are, perhaps, 12thc."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.092919, -1.86596
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 34.51″ N, 1° 51′ 57.46″ W
UTM: 30U 577690 5771980
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Notes on Measurements: [no dimensions found the CRSBI (2014) entry]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1721
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, with a low dome
REFERENCES
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
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. Accessed: 2008-04-15 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890