Boldre / Bolre / Bolder / Boore / Boure / Bouvre
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Stewart, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2010 by Alan Stewart [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boldre_Church_New_Forest.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave and chancel of St John's church with its C12 and C13 north and south arcades of Purbeck marble. Above is the nave's Waggon Roof with its carved bosses, completed by country craftsmen in the C14."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2011 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2708207] [accessed 19 September 2018]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 15thC (?) basin on a modern pedestal base -- notice the repairs to the upper rim area of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3314124] [accessed 19 September 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09860BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Ln, Boldre, Lymington SO41 5PG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1590 673484
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A337, 3-4 km N of Lymington, in the New Forest
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of New Forest
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the second (?) arch of the arcade that separates the nave from the south aisle, by the S entranceway
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Boldre [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SZ3198/boldre/] [accesed 19 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1878) reports: "the curious antique font has been judiciously restored" in the general restoration of this church in 1855. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "Richard de Redvers, who died in 1107, confirmed to the priory of Christchurch Twyneham the church of Boldre with the chapel of Brockenhurst [...] The first three bays of the present nave probably represent the nave of a 12th-century church, which would have had a small chancel. The first enlargement of this church was c. 1200 [...] The font is octagonal with a plain bowl of 15th-century date and a tall modern stem and base." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SZ3266799453] reports two fonts in it: "C15 octagonal font. Font 1876 by RN Shaw, stone and octagonal." Noted and illustrated in the Boldre and South Baddesley Benefice website [http://www.bsbb.org.uk/history/page5.html] [accessed 31 March 2010]. [NB: the church dates back to ca. 1080, but we have no information on the original font of the earlier church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.792276, -1.541407
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 32.2″ N, 1° 32′ 29.06″ W
UTM: 30U 602803 5627740
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-03-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878