Bozeat No. 1 / Bosegate / Bosehate / Bosezate / Bosiete / Bosizatt / Bosyate
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
![on the lower base [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: on the lower base [cf. Font notes]
![on the lower base [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Will Lovell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2006 by Will Lovell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/140818] [accessed 25 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14370BOZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 17 Hensmans Lane, Bozeat, Northamptonshire NN29 7ND
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A509, about 20 km E of Northampton, in the county border with Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Higham Ferrers
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
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Noted in Parker (1849): "The font is lined with lead, octagonal, shallow, and supported on a thin circular shaft." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The tower was of late-12th-century date, with later alterations [...] The font has a plain octagonal bowl and pedestal on a moulded base". [cf. Index entry for Bozeat No. 2 for a 14th-century stoup listed in this church]/
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.223565, -0.675084
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 24.83″ N, 0° 40′ 30.3″ W
UTM: 30U 658800 5788451
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849