Bremhill / Breme

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]