Brasted / Bradestede / Briestede
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Scene Description: Source caption: "St Martin's Church, Brasted, Kent - Font" -- the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2009 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Martin%27s_Church,_Brasted,_Kent_-_Font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1224617.jpg] [accessed 11 December 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16035BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century (?), Pre-Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Church Rd, Brasted, Westerham TN16 1HZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1959 565829
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between the M25 and the A25, 6 km WNW of Sevenoaks
Ecclesiastic Region: Dioces of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Westerham [in Doomesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Domesday church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Brasted [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4655/brasted/] [accessed 11 December 2024]; it reports fifteen slaves and one church in it. Glynne (1877) notes: "The font is a plain octagonal one." The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1346417] notes: "The earliest visible fabric is the C13 arcades, but these may have been added to an earlier church. The tower is probably late C13, and the N transept was added c.1320. The tower was remodelled in the late middle ages, and the whole church was heavenly restored and externally largely rebuilt [...] Following a severe fire in 1989, the church was reroofed, partially rebuilt and reordered [...] C19 font in an early C13 style with a round bowl on Purbeck marble shafts."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 298061 5684959
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.28012, 0.1044
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 16′ 48.43″ N, 0° 6′ 15.84″ E
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 234