Boyton / Boituna / Boynton / Boyton nr. Woodbridge
Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
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Scene Description: the modern replacement font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Simon Knott [www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/boyton.htm] [accessed 26 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a drawing done in 2016 by Robert Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by Richard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377486] [accessed 20 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15586BOY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Andrew%27s,_the_parish_church_of_Boyton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_584420.jpg
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: The Street, Boyton, Suffolk, IP12 3LQ
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A12, 13 km E of Woodbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Historical Region: Hundred of Sandford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-period church, and the later one seen by Parker [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Boyton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM0937/boynton/] [accessed 20 July 2014], one of which, in the lordship and tenancy of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux in 1086, reports a church and churchlands in it. A baptismal font here is noted in Parker (1855): "early and curious; an octagon, with panelled pedestal and bowl" is no longer in the church. Knott (2008) illustrates a modern, probably 19th-century, replacement, also an octagonal basin with sides decorated with quatrefoiled panels, raised on (five? shafts with moulded capitals and bases, and a plain octagonal plinth. Flat wooden cover, also modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.suffolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of the modern font, and to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of the church here
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 04′ 16.73″ N, 1° 27′ 38″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Knott, Simon, The Suffolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 1999-. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon [February 2005]. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855, [unpaged]