Broadwas / Bradewa / Bradewasse / Bradewesham / Bradewesse / Bradwas / Bradwes / Bredweys
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes September 2008 [www.alltecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 September 2008]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2010 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1642106] [accessed 23 September 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes September 2008 [www.alltecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 September 2008]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: 1856
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 1856 drawing by J Severn Walker [in John Wilkes' Worcestershire Parish Church Montages [www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 26 September 2014]]
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes September 2008 [www.alltecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 September 2008]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romaneque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W phtotograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/650/] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romaneque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W phtotograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/650/] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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view of basin - underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romaneque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W phtotograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/650/] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13771BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [restored], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, N side, opposite the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Church Lane, Broadwas, Worcestershire, WR6 5NQ
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A44, 11 km W of Worcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 543759 5782663
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.192689, -2.359829
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 33.68″ N, 2° 21′ 35.38″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 7 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm*
Basin Depth: 25.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 37.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 174
- 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.
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 95