Buckland / Bochelande / Bokeland / Buckland nr. Buntingford
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/368071] [accessed 3 June 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11916BUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Buckland, Hertfordshire SG9 0PU
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A10, 5 km N of Buntingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rochester
Historical Region: Hundred of Edwinstree [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this Buckland [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3533/buckland/] [accessed 3 June 2015]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, although there probably was one there. A font here is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: bowl of Barnack stone, probably 14th-century, but re-cut into an indefinite form; the base of clunch, scraped, apparently old." In Tompkins (1922) with quite a different date suggested: "The font is very possibly anterior to the Conquest; it is a roughly hewn mass of Barnack stone." There is no mention of it in Pevsner & Cherry (1977). An entry in the Brauingh Rural District Official Guide (1971) mentions "a font of Barnack stone which is possibly 900 years old."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.986064,
-0.023854
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 59′ 9.83″ N,
0° 1′ 25.87″ W
UTM: 30U 704355 5763671
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Barnack stone) (basin) -- clunch (base)
Font Shape: [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Exterior Shape: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office by J. Truscott, 1911
Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922