Bonchurch / Bonecerce / Bonechirche

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19th-century font

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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14608BON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Boniface [aka Old St. Boniface]
Church Patron Saints: St. Boniface [aka Bonifatius, Winfrith]
Church Location: Bonchurch Village Rd, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, PO38 1RQ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Isle of Wight, South East
Directions to Site: Located E of Ventnor, on the S part of the island
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of East Medine / Hurndred of Bowcombe [in Domesday] -- formerly Hampshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the old church, in the nave
Century and Period: , Medieval
There is an entry for Bonchurch and [Upper] Bonchurch [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/bonchurch-and-upper-bonchurch/] [accessed 13 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1878) reports: "The font was a tribute to the memory of Mr. Adams", obviously referring to the modern font. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "There was probably a church here before the compilation of Domesday [i.e., 1086], but the oldest part of the present building is at least a hundred years later […] The new church of St. Boniface was erected in 1847–8 […] A memorial font commemorates the Rev. William Adams" ["fellow and tutor of Merton College, Oxford, best known perhaps as a writer of allegories" (ibid.) The Oxford DNB gives dates 1818-1848]. Lloyd & Pevsner (2006) note the modern font in the new church: "Octagonal bowl with scallop decoration on the underside; black marble shafts." None of the sources checked mention a font in Old St. Boniface, but an object described as a font was photographed inside the old church in August 1999 by John Salmon. It consists of a small-sized hemispherical basin plain but for a flat moulding at the upper rim; it is covered in whitewash and stands on a plain cylindrical pedestal base. The object is small for a font, especially an early one, and it is difficult to date due to the lack of motifs on it; it could, nonetheless, be medieval, especially if a stoup.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.599167, -1.185
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 35′ 57″ N, 1° 11′ 6″ W
UTM: 30U 628448 5606825

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Lloyd, David W., The Isle of Wight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006
White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878