Broughton Astley / Broctone / Brostone
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
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Results: 9 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2009 by Christoper Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3805069714/in/set-72157621866002617/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 August 2009 by Christoper Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3805069714/in/set-72157621866002617/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 August 2009 by Christoper Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3805069714/in/set-72157621866002617/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
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design element - motifs - scallop - 8
Scene Description: a pair on each side of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 August 2009 by Christoper Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3805069714/in/set-72157621866002617/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/broughton-astley-st-mary/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible across the north arcade, at the west end of the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/broughton-astley-st-mary/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/broughton-astley-st-mary/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
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design element - motifs - chevron - continuous chevron
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2009 by Christoper Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3805069714/in/set-72157621866002617/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2009 by Christoper Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3805069714/in/set-72157621866002617/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 08808BRO
Object Type: Other
Object Details: capital, Norman
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Reported in the S porch ca. 1907; later moved inside, at the W end of the N aisle, near the W entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Close, Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, LE9 6XS
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B581, just W of the A426, 15 km SW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln, then Peterborough]
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? ***or*** is the present font a re-cut of the Norman original?
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Broughton [Astley] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP5292/broughton-astley/] [accessed 21 January 2015], but none mention cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) report: "a fine Norman stoup, consisting of a slender shaft covered with chevron moulding with a cushion capital, which is hollowed out to form a bason". The basin top is square with a square inner well. The stoup is now [August 2009] inside the church, just inside the [south?] door. The present font appears modern, an octagonal basin with decorated tapering sides raised on clustered columns, an octagonal lower base and an octagonal plinth; both font and cover appear to be 19th-century, but Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/broughton-astley-st-mary/] [accessed 30 July 2015] writes: "The font although heavily restored is probably Norman in origin and there is also another unusual Norman item near the entrance this being a holy water stoup with a fine zigzag decoration down the column."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church, stoup and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 620335 5821387
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.529279, -1.22607
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 45.4″ N, 1° 13′ 33.85″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 236