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No entry for Boarstall found in the Domesday survey. A modern font made "of Coade's stone" is reported by Lipscomb (1831- ) in this church. Sheahan (1862) reports this church was "rebuilt on the original foundation [...] in 1818", and furnished with a small and modern font". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church of Boarstall, dedicated in honour of St. John the Evangelist in 1391, [...] and of St. James from 1417 to the present day, [...] was a chapel of Oakley in the 12th century" [...] It was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style on the old foundations in 1818 by Sir John Aubrey, and contains some fittings re-used from the old church"; no font mentoned. Dixon (2003) [www.erros.co.uk/boarstallhome/Boarstall_Church.htm] states that a chapel of some sort existed here after 1086 but before 1142; that "Boarstall chapel was dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist in 1391, and the chapelry was made parochial in 1417/8 by Philip, Bishop of Lincoln [...] The church was re-dedicated to Saint James"; that the church appeared on the 1444 map of the village; that the church was destroyed by the Royalists in 1645 and re-built thereafter; altered in 1818. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church]