Bremhill / Breme
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Results: 8 records
B01: design element - motifs - scallop
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Image Source: digital photography by John Wilkes [allthecotwolds.com] [accessed 15 August 2008]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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BBU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital photography by John Wilkes [allthecotwolds.com] [accessed 15 August 2008]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photography by John Wilkes [allthecotwolds.com] [accessed 15 August 2008]
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photography by John Wilkes [allthecotwolds.com] [accessed 15 August 2008]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photography by John Wilkes [allthecotwolds.com] [accessed 15 August 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1950
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1950)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13695BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Calne SN11 9LA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1249 817926
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 3 km NW of Calne, 6 E of Chippenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Chippenham [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bremhill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST9773/bremhill/] [accessed 17 June 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Noted in Britton's Dictionary (1838): "The font in Bremhill Church […] is curious for its simplicity of form and ornament." Noted in a letter to the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine (March 1840: p. 272). The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports a stone font in this church. Classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire: "The carving has been recut." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, circular, with a motif of semicircular scales, some very re-tooled." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST9796973009] notes: "Anglican parish church, Anglo-Saxon origins, c1200, C13, C15, restored 1850 [...] c1200 circular font with bands of semi-circular scales and rope-moulded bands above and below." Listed and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3643] [accessed 17 June 2024]: "https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3643". The baptismal font consists of a cylindrical basin with slightly tapering sides decorated with a rool moulding at the upper rim, below which is a rope moulding all around; there are three rows of large scallops all around, followed down by another rope moulding similar to the one noted above; the underbowl is slightly concave, leading to a plain cylindrical stem and a moulded lower base; the whole is raised on a narrow quadrangular step or plinth that attached to the base of the pillar next to which the font stands. The wooden font is an almost flat conical piece decorated with arrises and with a Greek (?) cross finial; modern. [cf. Index entry for Bremilham, for a later font said to have belonged to this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 567325 5701003
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.4562, -2.031
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 27′ 22.32″ N, 2° 1′ 51.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, transcribed by Colin Wilson in [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Bremhill/index.htm] [accessed 15 August 2008]
- Britton, John, A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages, including […], London: Longman, Orne, Brown, Green, and Longmann, Paternoster Row, and the Author, Burton Street, 1838, p. 127 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=vO5PbV1ppbAC&pg=RA2-PA127&lpg=RA2-PA127&dq=bremhill+church+font&source=web&ots=4GsoexXupn&sig=DNMvDt3R1TjCjsiC-vFNvpnw5e0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA4-IA1,M1] [accessed 15 August 2008]
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; p. 467
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 140