Brandon / Brandon in Hough-on-the-Hill / Brandune

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Results: 4 records

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph 6 November 2011 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2683427] [accessed 28 July 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the hanging bell-ringing rope indicates the position of the font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Thomas E. Russo in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=13513] [accessed 28 July 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the font at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph in loveden.org.uk [www.loveden.org.uk/villages/brandon/brandon-chapel/] [accessed 28 July 2021]

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view of font in context - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph in Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/the_back_road_to_brant.html] [accessed 28 July 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11979BRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church [formerly chapel-of-ease] of St. John the Evangelist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist

Church Location: Church Ln, Brandon, Hough-on-the-Hill, Grantham NG32 2AP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1636 626001

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located in the civil parish of Hough-on-the-Hill, between Caythorpe (E) and Stubton (W), about 10 km N of Grantham, and the same distance ESE of Newark-on-Trent

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Loveden

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, centre aisle

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Lionel Wall & Diana, of Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk] for their permission to reproduce this baptismal font

Church Notes: original church possibly Anglo-Saxon or Norman; modified in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular periods; restored 1872

Font Notes: Click to view

There are two entries for this Brandon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9048/brandon/] neither of which mentions church or priest in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Font. Norman, plain, circular." Listed in the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (Recent Grants report of 16 March 2006) as a Norman font. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=13513] [accessed 28 July 2021]: "Located at the W end of the nave on the axis with the centre aisle. Plain drum font on a very worn chamfered base composed of five separate pieces of stone. A large portion of stone is missing from the N lip and some mortar repair is evident on the S lip. Lead-lined; centre drain."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.023, -0.653

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 1′ 22.8″ N, 0° 39′ 10.8″ W

UTM: 30U 657412 5877405

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lining

Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*

Basin Total Height: 45 cm*

Height of Base: 13 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm [calculated]

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2021-07-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989