Castle Bromwich / Bramewice / Branwic / Bromwych / Chastel de Bromwych

This Bromwich is mentioned in the Domesday survey [http://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-c/castle-bromwich/] [accessed 1 December 2014], though it has not been confirmed that it is exactly the present Castle Bromwich. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "The church was originally a chapel in the parish of Aston, and is mentioned as such in 1535. [...] The whole structure was rebuilt in red brick from 1726 to 1731. [...] The furniture is mainly contemporary. [...] The font is of veined grey marble and has a round bowl with gadroon ornament and a baluster stem. [...] The register of baptisms begins in 1619". The Parish web site [www.stmaryandstmargaret.co.uk/history/new_church.aspx] [accessed 1 December 2014] reports: "The church first appears in documentary evidence of 1165, in a charter recording the granting of Castle Bromwich by the manorial overlords, the de Paynel family to Tickford Priory. [...] Another document of 1175 mentions a Norman chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary at Castle Bromwich. [...] Built in local sandstone perhaps in the mid-12th century, the chapel would have been roughly the size of the present chancel. Evidence of the original stonework still survives. [...] The classical-style font of 1731 is of Italian marble."