Brimpsfield / Brimesfelde

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: semi-detached; they serve the function of the more commonly found outer-colonnette design

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 22 January 2008]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - 16

Scene Description: two per side of the octagonal basin

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 22 January 2008]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 22 January 2008]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 22 January 2008]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Brimpsfield Church (St. Michael), Gloucestershire, 7 September 2016. Pictured is the 12th Century Norman south doorway with plain tympanum. "

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2016 by Hugh Llewelyn [www.flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/29343758283] [accessed 25 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 22 January 2008]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 22 January 2008]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken October 2002 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10233BRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Brimpsfield, Gloucester GL4 8LD, UK -- Tel.: +44 1452 863247

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A417, 15 km SE of Gloucester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Rampsgate

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Brimpsfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9312/brimpsfield/] [accessed 25 January 2019]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Illustrated in Daubeny (1921) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period; the font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a pair of quatrefoil windows with rosette in the centre, all sandwiched between two parallel bands of moulding; graded chamfered underbowl; raised on a broad and plain central pillar and eight detached buttresses that serve the purpose of the outer colonnettes of other font designs, all mounted on an octagonal lower base. Octagonal wooden font cover with knob finial, appears relatively modern. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "The priest recorded on Brimpsfield manor in 1086 [...] presumably served in the church which was granted, probably in the 12th century, with some manorial tithes to Fontenay Abbey (Calvados). [...] parish church [...] bore dedications to the Blessed Saviour c. 1708 [...] and St. Lawrence in the early 1920s [...] The nave [...] has an undecorated chancel arch and south doorway of the late 11th or early 12th century [...] The church retains a medieval font". Font noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "C15. Large octagonal bowl, each face decorated with two quatrefoils in square frames and with floral centres. Buttressed base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.814061, -2.085452

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 50.62″ N, 2° 5′ 7.63″ W

UTM: 30U 563043 5740753

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with round finial/handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-01-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002