Broadwas / Bradewa / Bradewasse / Bradewesham / Bradewesse / Bradwas / Bradwes / Bredweys

There is an entry for Broadwas [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO7655/broadwas/] [accessed 23 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor a church in it. Miller (1890) entry for this church notes that "Its chief features are late Norman", but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol.3, 1913 ) notes: "The earliest church of which traces now remain dates from c. 1170 and was an aisleless building with a chancel and nave extending as far west as the present tower. Of this church part of the north and south nave walls with the south door remain, and the chancel is of the same date, though much repaired and refaced. [...] The font, of uncertain date, has a plain octagonal bowl and a round stem with scallops at the top." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014): "Plain octagonal bowl made of hard red and grey sandstone. Cylindrical stem with multi trumpet scallop capital on circular chamfered base, made of a very light stone which leaves a fine powder on the skin when touched, almost like cement. The shields are plain, and the cones project horizontally from the stem […] Of uncertain date but incorporating Romanesque features." The wooden font cover has a flat octagonal platform on which rises the Latin foliated cross finial; modern. In Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Octagonal bowl, round stem with multi-scalloped top; c. 1200, much renewed."