Britwell Prior / Brightwell Prior

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22211BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Britwell Prior Chapel [demolished 1865]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Notes: demolished building originally a chapel of ease to Newington
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km S of Watlington; Britwell Prior was a hamlet of Newington
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Oxford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Ewelme -- Hundred of Benson [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC chapel-of-ease demolished 1865)
Font Notes:
The entry for the parish of Newington in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 18, 2016) notes: "By the 12th century Newington had both a parish church and a dependent chapel at Britwell Prior, and during the Middle Ages there were also chapels at Berrick Prior and Brookhampton." The VCH entry includes some details of the Britwell Prior Chapel: "The medieval chapel at Britwell Prior (demolished in 1865) was a simple nave-and-chancel structure [...] The nave was apparently 12th-century [...] Later additions included two Perpendicular square-headed windows in the nave (probably 15th-century),a cupshaped octagonal font", but does not indicate when that font was introduced, nor if there was a font here originally.

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.