Bricklehampton No. 2 / Bricstelonestune
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08800BRI
Object Type: Stoup
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: E of the S entranceway
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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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a holy-water stoup of the Norman period. Miller (1890) reports a Norman doorway in this church but mentions neither font nor stoup in it. 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 [...] Just east of this [south] doorway is a holy-water stoup." [cf. Index entry for Bricklehampton No. 1 for a baptismal font 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
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 236
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 227