Bramerton / Brambertuna / Brambretuna / Brambretvna / Brambuetvna / Broadmere
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view of font and cover
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bramerton/bramerton.htm] [accessed 24 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - floral and foliage
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130424013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4590531653/in/photostream/] [accessed 24 April 2013]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bramerton/bramerton.htm] [accessed 24 April 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph February 2005 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bramerton/bramerton.htm] [accessed 24 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brokentaco, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2009 by Brokentaco [www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/4590531653/in/photostream/] [accessed 24 April 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18429NRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17531735
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: The Street, Bramerton, Norfolk NR14 7DW
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SE of Norwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich
Historical Region: Hundred of Henstede [aka Henstead]
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one -- only the basin is original) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: [Bramerton] [...] at the Conquest [...] had a church and 24 acres of glebe, worth 2s. per annum. The church of St. Peter is a rectory capable of augmentation [...] The church and steeple were totally rebuilt in 1462." Blomefield (ibid.) names the first recorded rector, "Ric de Overton", who resigned in 1305. The font is noted in the English Heritage entry [Listing NGR: TG2959704686] [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-227142-church-of-st-peter-bramerton-norfolk] [accessed 24 April 2013]: "Octagonal font bowl with, on the underside, fleurons and seaweed foliage carving. C20 octagonal plinth." The octagonal basin is plain, except for the noted floral and foliage clusters at the underbowl angles; the rest of the font, plain pedestal base and moulded lower base [not a plinth proper], are modern. {NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk Churches [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk] for his photographs of this church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: low octagonal pyramid with fleuron finial
REFERENCES
- Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 470-474 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78210] [accessed 24 April 2013]