Brinkworth

The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 14, 1991) notes: "The church of St. Michael, so called in 1763 [...] but St. Peter's in 1248 [...] and 1512 [...] The church which stood in 1151 may have been rebuilt in the late 12th century or early 13th. [...] The entire church was restored, and the area below the gallery enclosed to form a baptistery, under the direction of C. E. Ponting in 1902–3. The pulpit, altar table, and font cover were placed in the church in the 1630s." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with tapering sides decorated with three flat mouldings, raised on an octagonal pedestal with a sigle flat moulding, and on a moulded lower base, also octagonal; round plinth. Octagonal pyramidal wooden cover with ball finial. The Wiltshire Community History site [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=1036] [accessed 16 August 2008] notes that the font cover dates from the 1630s. Duncan and Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_brink_aub.htm] [accessed 16 August 2008] cite from notes written by John Aubrey in the late 17th century [published only in 1862 by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society in an edition annotated by John Jackson] the following interesting remark: "The Font is provided with a brass tap, like a beer barrel". Whatever the brass tap was meant for it is no longer on the font. The font itself appears medieval or late-medieval. There is a new font, made from iron and wood ca. 1998, that looks like a basin stand.