Brougham No. 2 / Brovacum

Curwen (1932) writes: "This Chapel is situate close to Brougham Hall. Somewhere about the year 1200 Gilbert de Burgham granted a moiety of the town of Brougham together with the advowson of the church to his feudal lord, Robert de Veteripont (Trans. N.S. 111, 356) who, it would appear, demolished the buildings and added the site to the Whinfell Park demesne. Whereupon in order to suit the altered centre of population, a chapel of ease was erected in the other moiety of the town (N. & B. i, 390). It was, however, a parish chapel and in no sense attached to the dwelling of the de Burgham family. [...] The chapel was rebuilt by the Lady Anne Clifford in the year 1659. Her diary speaks of the event thus:—" This summer I caused the Chappell at Brougham to be pulled down and new built upp again larger and stronger than it was before at my own charge and it was wholly finished about the latter end of April in one thousand six hundred and fifty nyne."". The font here is described and illustrated in Pevsner (1967): "Font. C17 bowl; the stem, with zigzag and eight sides coming out triangularly, is said by the RCHM [i.e., the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments] to be C19, but could well be c.1660." [cf. Index entry for Brougham No. 1 for the font in St. Ninian's Church nearby]