Boyton / Boituna / Boynton / Boyton nr. Woodbridge

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view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - southwest view
INFORMATION
FontID: 15586BOY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: The Street, Boyton, Suffolk, IP12 3LQ
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
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
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
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
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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]
COORDINATES
Church 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]. Accessed: 2009-10-26 00:00:00. URL: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England [...] Suffolk, 1855