Brading No. 1 / Berardinz

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]