Braydeston / Bradeston / Bregestuna / Breideston

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: contatining trefoils, quatrefoils, etc. [cf. Font notes] EXT SE digital photograph taken 6 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/857872] [accessed 7 August 2013] INT E digital photograph taken 6 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/857873] [accessed 7 August 2013] INT W digital photograph taken 6 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/857877] [accessed 7 August 2013] FONT digital photograph taken 6 July 2007 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/857840] [accessed 7 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the back

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12938BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Church Road, Braydeston, nr. Brundall, Norfolk NR13 4LD
Country Name: England
Location: Norfolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Brundall
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Blofield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1340?
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Decorated
The Domesday entry for 'Bregestuna' cited in Blomefield (1805-1810) informs that at the time of Edward the Confessor this land was held by one Cedric, and the land included "a church endowed with 10 acres" [="i. ecclia. de x. ac."], but the town went to "William de Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford" after the Conquest. Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "The Church is a rectory [...] dedicated to St. Michael. The length of the church is about 22 yards, the breadth 7 yards, is a single pile, has a little square tower about 45 feet high, with 3 bells, also a chancel, which with the church is covered with lead." The present font is noted in Persner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Coarse octagonal bowl with elementary tracery patterns, c.1340." Knott (2007) writes: "There was quite an early 19th century restoration here, and it is a restrained one, most fitting in this quiet place. The most unusual feature is the stumpy font; the top part is an octagonal bowl in the Decorated style, probably on the eve of the Black Death, but the pedestal is a huge thing, as wide as the bowl. I couldn't make out if they were two separate pieces of stone. Is it original, or was it added later to replace a collonade [i.e., colonnade]?" [NB: we have no information on the font of the pre-Conquest church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.625166, 1.451953
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 30.6″ N, 1° 27′ 7.03″ E
UTM: 31U 395216 5831700

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East [2nd ed.], Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997