Broadway / Bradanuuege / Bradanwege / Bradewe / Bradeweia / Bradeweye / Bradweyias

There is an entry for this Broadway variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0937/broadway/] [accessed 7 October 2014]; it mentions a priest but not a church, though there probably was one there. A report in The Antiquary (issue of July 29, 1871, p. 77) of the annual excursion of the Worcester Architectural Society noted a visit to Broadway St. Eadburgh's and notes the font which "is circular and entirely plain". Miller (1890) writes: "The old church, St. Edburga, has of late years used as a mortuary chapel; now again it is frequently for Divine Service. [...] The font is Norman". Described in the Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924): "There was a priest at Broadway in 1086, [...] and the advowson belonged to the Abbot and convent of Pershore from the earliest times of which records are obtainable. [...] The [present] church dates from the latter part of the 12th century [...] The font has a plain circular bowl shaped like an inverted truncated cone, dating probably from the 12th century. It stands on a base with modern supports and its upper edge is somewhat broken away in places." The VCH (ibid.) illustration shows the font located on the east side of the first column of the arcade separating the nave from the south aisle. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP0970536258] (1959) reports: "The font has a tapering bowl. Close to the north doorway is the hexagonal stem of another font, with slender engaged shafts." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note: "Font. A plain truncated cone, presumably Norman; plinth with reused C15 tiles.- By the N[orth] door a tall hexagonal stem (for a font?) with slender attached shafts with moulded capitals; probably late C13." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014): "Plain, conical and made of yellow oolitic limestone with damage at the rim where hinge and hasp were removed. Badly broken and then repaired. Set on later plinth. Date uncertain."