Brimpton / Brimton / Brinton / Brintone / Brinniggetun / Brumpton / Brumton / Bryningtune

There are two entries of Brimpton [variant spelling] in te Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5564/brimpton/] [accessed 12 May 2015], each of which mentions a church in it. The report of a visit of the British Archaeological Association to Brimpton on 14 September1859 notes: "the font, is Norman, [...] lined with heavy lead and bears every appearance of being the original lining". The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The Domesday Survey mentions a church on Ralph de Mortimer's [...] manor of Brimpton. [...] The second church [...] which according to the Domesday Survey lay in Brimpton is represented by the desecrated chapel of St. Leonard. [...] The church of St. Peter was erected in 1869 on an old site [...] The font [...] of the old church is said to have been a plain Norman one without ornament." The British Listed buildings database entry for this church www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62681] [accessed 1 November 2011] reports a "Square stone font with quatrefoil panels on 4 marble columns', obviously the replacement font of the 1869 re-building of the church. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the old Norman font at St. Peter's, nor on whether or not a font existed in the medieval chapel/church of St. Leonard's; the building of St. Leonard's still stands, near the Brimpton Manor Farm, and is dated as far back as the 12th century].