Broughton Hackett / Brocheton / Brocton Haket / Broctone Inardi / Broctune / Broctvne / Broghton Haket / Brouton Haket / Haggetts Broughton

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in September 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13806BRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Rye Hill, Broughton Hackett, Worcestershire WR7 4BA

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A422, 6 km E of Worcester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Pershore

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Broughton [Hackett] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9254/broughton-hackett/] [accessed 7 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. There is no mention of a font in Miller's 1890 entry for this church, but he gives the first recorded rector here as "Thomas de Nerventon ... 1274". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The first reference to the church occurs in 1274, when the advowson was mortgaged with the manor [...] There is little indication of the date of the building, but the nave is probably of the 14th century, while the chancel is perhaps of the 15th [...] The octagonal font is modern". English Heritage (1965) reports a small octagonal font of the 19th century in this church. The present font consists of an octagonal basin plain but for a moulded upper rim and a graded underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal base [NB: the fabric of the church goes back at least to the 14th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.189409, -2.112151

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 21.87″ N, 2° 6′ 43.75″ W

UTM: 30U 560693 5782477

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-09-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890