Brampton Abbots / Bruntune
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the southwest end of the nave -- notice that the top of the font cover is no longer hooked up to its pulley
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991363] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/947158] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: the pillar piscina in the lower-right corner of the image is listed in CRSBI (2018) with date in the 12thC
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991127] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font and cover partially visible at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180517015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font and cover partially visible at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991143] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/991133] [accessed 17 May 2018]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 55)
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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with decoration in the centre) - 8
Scene Description: the centre decoration varies per side: leaves, romboid, cusps, etc
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 55)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: the head of the arch is in the underbowl but the sides continue down the modern stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1931-1934
Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 55)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09713BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SW end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: late-Norman church restored mid-19thC
Church Address: Brampton Abbotts, Ross-on-Wye HR9 7JE, UK
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) Ross Rd, N of the A449, 3 km N of Ross, on the left bank of the Wye, 16 km SE of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bromsash
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Brampton [Abbotts] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO6026/brampton-abbotts/] [accessed 17 May 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 23 and pl. 55) notes: "Font [...]: octagonal bowl with quatrefoiled panels each with central enrichment or carved cusp-points, trumpet-shaped stem with panelled and traceried faces and modern lower part, late 15th-century." [NB: an ornate wooden cover appears on the font in the illustration above but no mention of it is made in the inventory text]. The CRSBI (2018) reports a 12th-century piscina in this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 528751 5753859
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.93471, -2.5818
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 4.96″ N, 2° 34′ 54.48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes, pulley [unhooked in 2008]
Notes: tall pyramidal octagon with crocketed arrises, pinnacles, etc.; probably Victorian
REFERENCES
- 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.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934, vol. II: p. 23 and pl. 55