Boyton / Boituna / Boynton / Boyton nr. Woodbridge

Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2009

Standing permission

Results: 3 records

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

view of font

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

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
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