Broome / Brome
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern basin on a 15th-century base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/broome/broome.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Photo caption: "West window with niche above. West doorway with quatrefoil frieze over. Flushwork panelled base"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Broome St Michael's church west door [7156] 1994-09-11.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Perpendicular tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Broome St Michael's church tower [7154] 1994-09-11.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © George Plunkett, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 11 September 1994 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/B/Broome St Michael's church from SE [7155] 1994-09-11.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/broome/broome.htm] [accessed 24 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph January 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/broome/broome.htm] [accessed 24 February 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/broome/broome.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 16
Scene Description: two on each side of the plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2005 by Simon Knott [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/broome/broome.htm] [accessed 17 July 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15006BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [base and plinth only], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: East Anglia font [base only]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Rectory Road, Broome, Norfolk NR35 2EJ
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km N of Bungay, 20 km SE of Norwich [NB: not to be mistaken with Brome [aka Broome] in Suffolk]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Loddon
Additional Comments: disappeared basin / composite font (the basin modern) -- disappeared font? (the one from the church ca. 1300 here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Broome in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3591/broome/] [accessed 28 February 2014], one of which mentions a church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Michael, was valued at 10 marks, in the reign of King Edward I [i.e., 1272-1307] and had then 30 acres of glebe, with a manse [...] Rectors. In 1307, Henry de Thorp was instituted, presented by the King". The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Only the step with quatrefoil decoration and the stem with four lions are original." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2005). The modern basin is octagonal and has shields in panels on the sides, but there has been no attempt at imitating the original, which may well have had shields on some of its sides as well. The wooden font cover is also modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.um, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 395107 5816139
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.485301, 1.455273
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 7.09″ N, 1° 27′ 18.98″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round platform with scroll ribs and Latin cross finial
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 10: 108-111 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78638] [accessed 28 Februsry 2014]
- Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999, p. 224