Bredicot / Bradecot / Bradecote / Bradicot / Bradigcotan / Bradingecotan / Bredicote / Bredicoto / Brodecot

There is an entry for Bredicot [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9054/bredicot/] [accessed 23 September 2014], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it; curiously, though, the lord of the manor in 1066 had been "Brictwold", a priest; by 1086 the lordship had changed to the hands of Walter Ponther [aka Pontherius or Puher, according to Keats-Rohan (1999)], who in 1086 appears associated with a total of 28 places. Miller (1890) writes; "The church, from its shape, being oblong with the upper end raised for the chancel, is probably of very early date [...] The font is octagonal and curiously carved probably of the 14th century." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The church [...] has been very much restored in modern times, but its walls probably contain 13th-century material [...] The font is octagonal with shallow trefoiled panels on the side of the bowl and a small square diaper above. The bowl may be as early as the 13th century, but the stem and base are modern." In Brooks & Pevsner (2007): "Octagonal C14 font, with tall cusped panels, perhaps re-cut."