Brougham No. 1 / Brovacum

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Scene Description: "1662"

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11039BRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ninian [aka Ninekirk / Ninekirks] [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Ninian [aka Nynia]
Church Location: Brougham, Cumbria CA10 2AD
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: The church is located about 3 km NE of the Castle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Westmoreland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave,
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Church Notes: redundant; now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Curwen (1932) writes: "This church is now in a very remote part of the parish, far away from any houses, in the centre of a field. The dedication to a British Saint appears to indicate that it stands upon the site of a RomanoBritish foundation [cf. infra] But the first mention that we have of it is found in the "Antique Taxatio Ecclesiastica" of Pope Nicholas iv, made in 1291" [...] The Commonwealth Survey of 1657 gives the following: [...] 'The church was "repaired and new built frõ the ground or such ruins as threatened to lay it there," by the Lady Anne in 1660, and she records that it "would in all likelyhood have fallen downe, it was soe ruinous, if it had not bin now repaired by me." Fortunately the interior has not been restored materially since. Her initials and the date, 1660, are in relief plaster work at the east end. The date of the font is 1662 and that on the quaint poorbox is 1663.'" Robert de Appleby, 1310, is given in Curwen (ibid.) as the first recorded incumbent here. Noted in Pevsner (1967): "Font. 1662, plain, octagonal." Illustrated in Byner (2013). [NB: this font appears to date from the complete rebuilding of the original Norman church by Lady Anne Clifford [aka Anne Pembroke]. There may have been a much earlier church here; the Ancient Monuments site [www.ancientmonuments.info/en23678-st-ninian-s-preconquest-monastic-site-site] [accessed 25 October 2013] notes: "St Ninian's Preconquest Monastic Site, Site of Nucleated Medieval Settlement, St Ninian's Church and Churchyard" [WGS84 Coordinates: 54.6629, -2.68127 -- Grid Reference SJ561561 (356060, 529986)], where it reports the presence of "A possible Roman altar is situated in the SE of St Ninian's Church. The altar measures 14.75" by 6" with concave sides." -- we have no information on the earlier font[s]. [cf. Index entry for Brougham No. 2 for a font possibly of the 17th century in St. Wilfrid's Chapel nearby]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.6628, -2.6847
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 39′ 46.08″ N, 2° 41′ 4.92″ W
UTM: 30U 520338 6057315

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on one of the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "1662"

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration

REFERENCES

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013
Curwen, John F., The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967