Bretforton / Bratfortune
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view of font and cover
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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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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 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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07339BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [composite font], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: 64 Main Street, Bretforton, Worcestershire, WR11 7J
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: composite font? [cf. FontNotes]
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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 577690 5771980
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.092919, -1.86596
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 5′ 34.51″ N, 1° 51′ 57.46″ W
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, p. 170
- 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. 2: 6