Brough / Brough-under-Stainmore
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present font [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15927BRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Brough, Cumbria, CA174EJ
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located at the A66-A685 crossroads, 34 km SE of Penrith
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Westmorland
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Curwen (1932) writes: "The church of Brough is first mentioned in an Award made by the Prior of Carlisle and others between Bishop Walter Malclerk (1223–46) and the Abbot of St. Mary's at York", and notes that the church was taxed as a rectory in 1291. A font here is noted in Scott (1899) as one of several instances of fonts having found their way from churches to private grounds [...] during recent years". [NB: unknown whether the font referred to in Scott was the one from the original mid-12th century church, or from the later 14th- or 16th-century expansions]. The present font in the church is probably 19th-century, a plain octagonal basin with a chamfered upper rim and tall underbowl, raised on an octagonal stem with mouldings at both ends, on an octagonal-to-square lower base; the octagonal wooden cover is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.525367,
-2.318245
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 31′ 31.32″ N,
2° 19′ 5.68″ W
UTM: 30U 544124 6042191
REFERENCES
Curwen, John F., The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1932
Scott, Daniel, Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland, London: William Andrews & Co., 1899
