Boynton / Bovinton / Bouinton
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09803BOY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Main Street, Boynton, East Riding of Yorkshire YO16 4XJ
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the B1253, 5 km W of Bridlington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Hunthow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, centre of the nave
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photograph of this font.
There are three entries for this Boynton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA1367/boynton/] [accessed 20 July 2014], one of which, in the tenancy and lordship of King William in 1086, reports a church in it. The font here is described in Jenkins (2000: 760) as "Norman tub font decorated with intersecting arches." The material looks like a fine-grained sandstone. Betjeman (1958: 404) reports an "unusual lectern and font cover designed by Francis Johnson". The font itself is cylindrical and the arcade is a fine work of very slender intersecting round arches. The cover is indeed unusual, somewhat harking back at the ribbed post-Reform examples, but with the emphasis reversed: the base is thick and prominent and the ribs, three around a central pivot, have been reduced to the size of handles; painted in green (chiefly), gold and ochre, it matches the verdure of the pews.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.0951,
-0.2635
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 05′ 42.94″ N,
0° 15′ 47.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone?
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: tub-shaped (cylindrical)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: Designed by Francis Johnson
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: painted wood [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958
Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]
