Bossington / Bosington / Bosintone / Bosuton / Bosyngton / Bosynton

There is an entry for Bossington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3330/bossington/] [accessed 12 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. King's A handbook for travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight (1876) and Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer (1870-1872) state that the church was rebuilt in 1839, but neither gives information on its predecessor. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "Bossington was formerly a chapelry dependent on the parish church of Broughton [...] The church of St. James [...] is small and entirely modern, having been built by the late John Meggott Elwes in 1839 in place of an earlier church. [...] There is a modern font of 15th-century style." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU3276829675] notes: "Furnishings C19 good copies of medieval stalls and octagonal baluster font." Marta Ameijeiras Barros' Mapping the cult of St James the Great in England during the Middle Ages: from the second half of the 11th century until the middle of the 14th century [=Trazando el culto de Santiago el Mayor en Inglaterra durante la Edad Media: desde mediados del siglo XI hasta mediados del siglo XIV] [http://www.caminodesantiago.gal/documents/17639/362254/Ad_Limina_VII. 05_Marta Ameijeiras Barros.pdf] reports a church of "pre-Reformation" date dedicated to St James the Greater in Bossington. [NB: we have no information on the font from the earlier church]