West Bradley

No entry for West Bradley found in the Domesday survey. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST5578636874 ] reports a Norman tub font located beneath the tower of this church. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 9, 2006) notes: "West Bradley was until 1875 [...] a chapelry of East Pennard and its church had the status of a dependent chapel. A chapel was first recorded in 1168 [...] The church, dedicated to St. Andrew only since the late 20th century and probably before then having no dedication, may well until restoration have had a piscina and corbels in the chancel which dated to the 13th century [...] the nave, perhaps 12th century in origin [...] All the windows and furnishings, apart from the plain tub font, are of the 19th century." [NB: although West Bradley remained a chapelry until the 19th century it must have had baptismal rights from its very beginning]. The basin consists of an irregular basin with bulges, rather than mouldings; it has repairs of new stone on the sides; raised on a cylindrical base, a moulded lower base, round at the top and square at the bottom. The wooden font cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.