Brixworth / Brickelsworth / Briclesworde / Bricklesuurtha / Briglesword / Brikelesworth / Brihtheswrde / Brythtesworth / Bryxworth

There is an entry for Brixworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP7470/brixworth/] [accessed 9 February 2023]; it mentions a priest in it. A font here is described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937): "Briefly stated the building is a large basilican church of the 7th century, with modifications in later Saxon and medieval times. [...] The church was restored and greatly altered in 1864–6 [...] The font is ancient and consists of a small circular bowl on a tall circular shaft or pedestal, with moulded base." [the footnote in the VCH reads: "Its claim to be Roman (Archaeol. Xliii, 119) is generally abandoned. It is described by Sir H. Dryden in Assoc. Arch. Soc. Rpts. Xxii, 78. See also V.C.H. Northants. Ii, 189, where it is styled 'the arm of a cross', and Prior and Gardner, Eng. Med. Figure Sculpture (1912), 131, under 'Saxon sculpture'." Noted in Mee (1945): "The font is medieval, its small bowl standing on a tall round shaft." Parsons and Sutherland (2013) make no mention of a font here. [NB: the lower base appears modern -- the original font of this church may have been destroyed in the Danish invasion that devastated the church here in 876 -- we have no information on the earliest font here]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP7475071217] notes: "Church. C7, C10, C13 and C19. Ironstone, lias rubble with C19 plain tiled roof" [no font mentioned in the entry].