Bossall / Boscele / Bosdale / Bozhal / Bussehall

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11000BOS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: Bossall, York YO60 7NT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A64, about 25 km NE of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Bulford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, behind the reredos

Century and Period: 12th - 14th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a multiple-place entry for Bossall in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7160/bossall/] [accessed 6 December 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "There was a church and a priest in Bossall in 1086 [...] The earliest portions of the existing structure date from the last quarter of the 12th century, when the whole church was completely rebuilt. [...] The church has been restored in recent years [...] The font is of unusual form and late 12th-century date. The bowl, on plan, is a square with half-circles on each side and is hemispherical in section. The shaft and base are modern and the wooden cover belongs to the 17th century." The baptismal font at St. Botolph is a rarity in England: the basin, probably of the 12th or 14th century(?), has a quatrefoil plant with angular protrusions at 90-degree angles between the lobes of the quatrefoil; the exterior is also shaped in a ribbed pattern with the angular ribs corresponding to the angles of the plant; all around the upper rim is a thin moulding; the inner well of the bowl is exactly the same as the outer; the well is unlined and has a drain hole slightly off centre; the pedestal base is of a date later than the basin, and is made up of a cylindrical stem decorated with a zig-zag pattern all around and a thick roll moulding at the bottom; the whole is raised on a two-step sloping square plinth. Betjeman (1958) notes "a simple but effective 18th-century font cover", a modern version of the typical Jacobean ribs-around-a-pivot font cover. Pevsner (1985) notes: "Font. Supposedly C12 bowl, but of a very strange shape: square with projecting lobes or quatrefoil with extruded corners. The lobes are fluted. [...] Font Cover probably late C17." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE7183460749] notes: "Church. Late C12 nave, transepts and tower (with C15 upper stage) and late C13 chancel, with C19 restoration [...] Font: lobed bowl, probably C14 with C17 wooden cover."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.0377, -0.904

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 2′ 15.72″ N, 0° 54′ 14.4″ W

UTM: 30U 637258 5989749

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

Drainage Notes: not lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: Late 17th century? / 18th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-12-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966