Breaston / Bradestune / Braidestone / Braidestune

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11553BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [Chapel?] of St. Michael, Breaston
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Breaston
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: 25 Main St, Breaston, Derby DE72 3DX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1332 872094
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A6005, just W of Long Eaton, about 13 km ESE of Derby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Morleystone [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
There are four entries for Breaston [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK4533/breaston/] [accessed 22 June 2025]; none of them reports a priest or a church in it. Noted in Bagshaw (1846): "The font is a fine specimen of Derbyshire spar, dated 1750, with a fluted column and bowl." Kelly's Directory of 1881 notes similarly and locates the font under the tower. In Pevsner (1978) as a baptismal font ca. 1720 [NB: the tower and the south aisle are dated to the 13th century but we have no information on the earlier font of this 17th-century church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 613204 5862137
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.896986, -1.317106
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 53′ 49.15″ N, 1° 19′ 1.58″ W

REFERENCES

  • Bagshaw, Samuel, History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent […], Sheffield: printed for the author by William Saxton […], 1846, p. 219 / [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GvoGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=burton+agnes+church+font&source=web&ots=ZOPjky5vOe&sig=FkGl68oIAcC9Redaolb3EIGE8fY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA3,M1] [accessed 1 July 2008]
  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 932
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 109