Brading No. 1 / Berardinz

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Apostle or saint? - unidentified

Scene Description: It may be a human figure and it does appear to have a halo on the head

Image Source: digital photograph by John Harding [www.sheelanagig.org]

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design element - motifs - groove - vertical and horizontal

Image Source: digital photograph by John Harding [www.sheelanagig.org]

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design element - motifs - spiral

Scene Description: in the middle of the right side

Image Source: digital photograph by John Harding [www.sheelanagig.org]

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symbol - pentacle

Scene Description: on the front side

Image Source: digital photograph by John Harding [www.sheelanagig.org]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2018 by Mypix [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Church,_Brading,_Isle_of_Wight,_UK.jpg] [accessed

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph by John Harding [www.sheelanagig.org]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10440BRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: High St, Brading, Sandown PO36 0ED, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Isle of Wight, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A3055, 11-12 km E of Newport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth

Historical Region: Hundred of East Medine / Hundred of Browcombe [in Domesday] -- formerly Hampshire

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 10th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Harding, of www.shellanagig.org, for the photograph of this object.

Church Notes: Original church said to have been founded in 704 by Bishop Wilfried [source: National Gazetteer of 1868 -- transcription by Colin Hinson, 2003 -- www.genuki.org.uk]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Brading [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ6087/brading/] [accessed 13 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "a small octagonal stoup stands in the porch." In Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "In the chancel a stoup (not in situ), with a square projecting bowl, roughly carved, on a rounded corbel." The object consists of a quadrangular basin raised on an oddly-shaped pedestal base, the back of both being built into the wall; the three exposed sides of the basin are decorated with a variety of motifs included a pentagram on the front and several round and spiral motifs on the sides, the motif on the extreme right could be a human figure, even a bishop or saintly figure; the two front corners could be [have been] human (?) heads; the inner basin is square; the visible part of the pedestal base is decorated with vertical and horizontal grooves. [cf. Index entry for Brading Nos. 2 and 3, for two baptismal fonts in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.6825, -1.142778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 57″ N, 1° 8′ 34″ W

UTM: 30U 631409 5615780

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: quadrangular (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quadrangular

Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Lloyd, David W., The Isle of Wight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006