Boyton / Boyton nr. Launceston

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) writes: "Rude font, of Tintagel greenstone, and irregular oval shape, has been supposed to be Saxon ; but it has cable moulding and is much more probably early Norm[an]". Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Plain Early Norman, of the same irregular oval shape as Morwenstow and Washaway." According to the GENUKI site [www.genuki.org.uk], "the font, claimed by some to be Saxon, is a simple, crude bowl standing on a pillar"; this same source informs that the dedication to the Holy Name dates only from the new church built towards the end of the reign of Henry IV in 14th century, not from the earlier Norman church that existed in that place, the dedication of which is unknown.