Brockworth / Brocowardinge
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14100BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George, Brockworth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Address: Court Rd, Brockworth, Gloucester GL3 4ET, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1452 550554
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A417, 5 km SE of Gloucester, but now an outer SE suburb of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dudstone [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the likely church here in Domesday-time?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Brockworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8916/brockworth/] [accessed 3 July 2025]; it reports a priest, but not a church, in it. The font is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman, with plain circular bowl with moulded rim and base." The font is raised on a polygonal plinth. The ill-matched wooden cover consists of a flat octagonal platform with four raised open-work arches with external buttresses; an odd shaped object, perhaps composite?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 205