Brill / Brehull / Breohilla / Brihull / Brohill / Bruhella / Bruhulle / Brunhelle

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

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design element - motifs - moulding

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped quatrefoil

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source capton: "All Saints' Church, Brill. Originally C12 but it was rebuilt by John Oldrid Scott in 1888. The C15 tower was retained."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4403123] [accessed 2 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/333917] [accessed 2 December 2015]

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10308BRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Street, Brill, Buckinghamshire, HP18 9RT

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B4011, 11 km SE of Bicester, just E of the border with Oxfordshire

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Ixhill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon

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

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful tp Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Brill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6513/brill/] [accessed 2 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font is octagon, with its compartments sculptured with quaterfoils and shields, supported by a pedestal having trefoil-headed arches, and at its base a high step, probably for the convenience of performing submersion baptism." In Sheahan (1862), after Lipscomb. Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "Font: heptagonal bowl with a quatrefoil and a flower or a shield on each side, octagonal stem with trefoiled panel in each side, moulded octagonal base, contunued towards the W[est] to form a platform, probably late 14th-century." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church of Brill from the 12th to the 16th century was a chapel of Oakley Church [...], with which it seems always to have descended. According to a charter of Stephen it had belonged to the priory of St. Frideswide, Oxford, since the time of Edward the Confessor" [i.e., 1042-1066]. [...] The chancel and nave date from the early 12th century [...] The font, which dates from the 14th century, has a traceried panel on each of the seven sides of the bowl, and an octagonal stem and base, the base being prolonged to form a step." In Pevsner (1960): "Font. Heptagonal with quatrefoil panels; Perp[endicular]." The same source identifies the font cover as being by Canon Vernon Staley, ca. 1918-1920 (Staley made the font cover at Ickford as well). The tall wooden cover appears to have a flat heptagonal base from which rise panels of decorated open work with mixed plain and turned elements. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the earlier font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.819075, -1.049689

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 8.67″ N, 1° 2′ 58.88″ W

UTM: 30U 634423 5742714

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: heptagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern / ca. 1918-1920

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: the work of Canon Vernon Staley, who did also the one at Ickford (Bucks.) [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-

Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960