Brindle No. 3 / Brumhull / Brunehill / Brunhill / Bryndill / Burnhull / Burnul

No individual entry for Brindle found in the Domesday survey. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an ancient font" in the parsonage [NB: we have no update on this information]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "Only the tower and chapel, however, are old, being of 15th-century date, and the latter has been so much restored in recent years as to deprive it of nearly all its archaeological interest. The nave of the old church was pulled down and the present one built in 1817 [...] The font now in use is a modern Gothic one, octagonal in shape, but the church contains three other fonts, and there is a fifth in the rectory garden. Of those in the church the oldest is a circular stone one 2 ft. in diameter, probably of 12th-century date, standing on a made-up base at the west end of the nave. Close to it is a four-sided font with chamfered angles, apparently dating from the early 16th century, having panelled sides, on one of which is the sacred monogram and on another a four-leafed flower. The other two sides are defaced and plain. The remaining font inside the building is a plain 18th-century one on a circular pedestal, but the one in the rectory garden is of greater interest. It is seven-sided and of rough stone, and is only 16 in. in diameter. It was recovered in the village in 1907, and may have belonged to St. Helen's well. The bowl is 12 in. wide and 7 in. deep, and there is no pedestal." Noted in Pevsner (1969) and in Hartwell & Pevsner (2009): "Fonts. A small one may be elementary Late Perp[endicular] or perhaps 1660s. -- Another font is of the Georgian baluster type" [and consequently not included in this Index on account of its late date]. [cf. Index entry for Brindle No. 1 and 2 for older fonts here, one of which was found in the parsonage]