Bramham / Brameham
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Historic England notes: "Parish church. C12 and C13, altered and restored in C19 and C20"; the present font in it is modern [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2013 by Mtaylor848 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints'_Church,_Bramham,_West_Yorkshire_(15th_July_2013)_002.jpg] [accessed 25 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13919BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 4 Church Meadows, Bramham, Wetherby LS23 6TF, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1(M), 5 km S of Whetherby, 5 km from Aberford, 20 km S of Harrowgate
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Barkston -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bramham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4242/bramham/] [accessed 25 October 2018]; it reports a priest, a church and "1.0 church lands" in it. Glynne in his 13 May 1862 visit (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is new, a cylindrical bowl, quite plain." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) reports: "Restoration in 1853 included the removal of a W gallery and the insertion of a wider imitation tower arch, and a Norman-style font." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4271543036] notes: "Parish church. C12 and C13, altered and restored in C19 and C20"; no mention of a font in it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 608338 5971621
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.881722, -1.351833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 52′ 54.2″ N, 1° 21′ 6.6″ W
REFERENCES
- 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.
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 117