The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Kentigern or St Mungo (medieval)
Parish church
Bromfield is located in NW Cumbria, in the ward of Allerdale below Dewent (i.e. Allerdale north of the river Derwent). The present church comprises a nave with N aisle, and a long rectangular chancel. Built off of the S side of the chancel is a chantry chapel, founded in 1395 (restored in 1925). The N transept/chapel was rebuilt in 1861 as a private family chapel. Built in front of the Romanesque S nave doorway is a later porch. Restorations on the church were undertaken in 1861-2, 1893-4 and 1926. The 12th-century church appears to have been aisleless with a shorter chancel than at present. The S doorway remains from this early church, as do sections of carved stones flanking the chancel arch, which was rebuilt in the late-14th century. Several medieval carved grave covers, a few of which are likely to be of 12th-century date, are kept inside the church. Two cross heads, which had been re-used in an outbuilding of the vicarage, are also documented, but the building no longer remains and the present location of the stones, if they still exist, has not been found.