Bramdean / Biondens / Brandun / Brendon / Bromdene / Brondene / Brundon

There are two entries for Bramdean [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6127/bramdean/] [accessed 19 June 2018] neither of which mentions priest or church in it. White (1878) reports the repairs to and the enlargement of the old church in 1853-1854, and the gift of a "handsome new font" by the Rev. William Legge. This modern font is described in the Parish web site : "The font, high Victorian with symetrical still-leaf motifs, is a copy of a 13th century style." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "the [chancel] windows are probably contemporary with the walls in which they are set and may belong to the end of the twelfth century. [...] The font, near the north door of the nave, is modern, of thirteenth-century style." The modern font consists of an octagonal basin with decorated sides, raised on a set of clustered colonnettes with capitals and bases on a plain octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover is octagonal, a low pyramid, with arrrises and floral finial, probably Victorian as well. [NB: the church fabric dates from the late-12th century, but we have no information on the medieval font]