Bosbury No. 1 / Boseberge

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon font bowl"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/bosbury.htm] [accessed 9 March 2024]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church and the bell tower viewed from the crossroads."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Seriousmoejoe, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph 3 January 2013 by Seriousmoejoe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bosbury_Holy_Trinity_Church,_2013.JPG] [accessed 9 March 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity church (Bosbury)" -- showing the medieval font in the foreground

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity church (Nave | Bosbury). Here is the nave at the Holy Trinity parish church, built in the late 12th/early 13th century. The west wall, seen in the distance (centre), dates from the 12th century." -- showing the medieval font towards the far end

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view of church interior - north aisle - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity church (North aisle | Bosbury). The north aisle at the Holy Trinity parish church was built in the late 12th/early 13th century." -- showing the "Saxon font" in the centre of the image, just east of the screen

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view of church interior - screen - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity church (Screen | Bosbury). This wooden screen of five-bays frames the entrance to the chancel from the nave. This was built in the 15th century." -- the two fonts are included in the view: the square font is visible at the far [west] end through the central arch of the screen; the "Saxon font" is discernible on the right, in the north aisle, between two of the pillars

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity church (Font | Bosbury). Here is another font in the Holy Trinity parish church, except this font is situated in the west end of the north aisle. This is believed to have been the font for the Saxon church on this site, since it was found in 1844 below the present font in the west end of the nave."

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon font, Bosbury church. This font is thought to be the font from a Saxon church which stood at Bosbury before the present church. This font was found in 1844 buried beneath the floor of the nave below the present font then stood."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2021

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view of font and cover - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity church (Font | Bosbury). Here is the font in the west end of the nave, supported on five legs and consists of a square bowl. This was possibly built at the turn of the 13th century, around 1200."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06788BOS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: B4220, Bosbury HR8 1QT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1531 670753
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Bosbury is located on the B4220, just E of Castle Frome, about 20 km WSW of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Wimundestreu
Font Location in Church: Discoverd buried beneath the later font in 1844
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
There is an entry for Bosbury [variant spelling) in the Dosmeday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO6943/bosbury/] [accessed 9 March 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it, but it does mention "1.0 church lands" in it. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of pre-Norman date: "Competent authorities pronounce the old font at Bosbury, Herefords., found in 1844, 2 feet below its Early English successor, to be of pre-Norman date." The Royal Commission's inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934) notes: "Loose in the S. aisle -- rough oval stone bowl with drain, date uncertain", but it is not clear whether or not the latter object is the "pre-Norman" font discoveredd in 1844]. Listed in Stocker (1997) as a "deep burial" instance in his listing of "font bowls reportedly discovered under church floors and set beneath successors." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO6954843449] notes: "Parish church. Late C12 or early C13, incorporating fabric of earlier C12 building, C15 south porch and early C16 Morton Chapel by Thomas Morton, died 1511, brother of the then Archbishop of Canterbury. Church restored 1871 [...] font: c1200 square base with five shafts supporting square bowl with rounded concave sides" [NB: the other font is not mentioned in the entry]. Listed and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=5249] [accessed 10 March 2024]: "In the N aisle, alongside the N doorway is a roughly-carved, drum-shaped font bowl, approximately cylindrical and unlined. There is rim damage at N and S and a crack at the W. The bowl is generally eroded, with losses around the lower edge [...] According to a label on the disused font, it was found in 1844 under the W end of the nave. The label describes this font as Saxon, and the other as c.1200. Pevsner (1963) dated the church and the current font to c.1200, but did not mention the old font. Brooks (2012) merely calls it ‘earlier’ (than c.1200 presumably)." [cf. Index entry for Bosbury No. 2 for the Early English font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.088425, -2.44563
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 18.33″ N, 2° 26′ 44.27″ W
UTM: 30U 537983 5771018

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 52-58 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68-74 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2024-03-10 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]