Kirk Bramwith No. 2 / Bramuuat / Branuuet / Branuuithe / Branwite / Branwithe / Branwode

There are two entries [Kirk] Bramwith [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE6211/kirk-bramwith/] [accessed 13 November 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Harman & Pevsner (2017) note: "Font. An adapted medieval(?) cross base, unearthed in the churchyard in the 1940s. -- The C15 octagonal FONT, is outside, near the S[outh] door." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides and tall pronounced chamfered underbowl ending in a centre ring, raised on a splaying octagonal pedestal base; the font is plain except for the moulding that constitutes the centre ring; it is now [23 June 2005] utilised as a flower planter on the outside of the church. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The font is a later item: it recalls octagonal pillar bases with angle lugs, the chiselling-out of the basin is later too [...] The font now in use "was dug up in the churchyard in the 1940s" according to the church guide (2001, 2), adding the comment that it "is said to be Saxon". It was standing under the tower when first recorded, but now (2016) is in the NW part of the nave. This is a very worn and weathered hunk of stone, reset on a modern base. The form is an octagonal drum on an integral square plinth, with a large spur at each of the four corners making up to the cylinder; the spurs are rounded above and plain and square in line with the four sides of the base. The form recalls Gothic pillar bases but is irregular. The bowl interior is roughly worked to a hemisphere with a broad chisel. Unlined. There is an octagonal bowl now outside the door, this is probably the font replaced by the present one; it also is unlikely to be a Romanesque font." [NB: this font is likely the one that supplanted the earlier one [cf. Index entry for Kirk Bramwith No. 1] when that one was retired from service -- at some point in the past, the old font was restored and the new one put out to pasture, literally!]