Boxford / Bochesorne / Bousore / Bovsore [Domesday] / Foxforth / Boxford nr. Newbury / Boxhle / Boxore / Boxworth

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption "St Andrew, Boxford. Grade 2* listed building erected in the 13th century."

Image Source: photograph taken in 2002 by Michael Ford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1537996] [accessed 6 May 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern [mid-19thC?] font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2015 [http://boxford.org.uk/?attachment_id=298] [accessed 6 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17705BOX

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andtrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Winterbourne Road, Boxford, Berkshire, RG20 8DP

Country Name: England

Location: Berkshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the M4, 7 km NNW of Newbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Kintbury [in Domesday] / Hundred of Faircross

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1662?

Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Boxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4271/boxford/] [accessed 6 May 2015], one of which, in the tenancy of the Abbey of St Mary, Abbingdon, mentions a church in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "It seems probable that a church was built here by the abbey of Abingdon before the Conquest, but the entry in the Domesday Survey on this point is obscure. [...] there is evidence of a 13th-century building in the south doorway and in the lancet window south of the chancel [...] The font is modern." David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History web site entry for this church [/www.berkshirehistory.com/churches/boxford.html] [accessed 31 October 2011] notes: "there are two fonts (Restoration and Edwardian)". The English Heritage entry for Boxford [Listing NGR: SU4287171632] (1967), however, reports: "C15 font with octagonal, panelled bowl." The older font is probably 17th-century; the other font in this church is modern, probably of the mid-19th century renovation of the church here.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.442048, -1.384721

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 26′ 31.37″ N, 1° 23′ 5″ W

UTM: 30U 612260 5700222

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.