Boughton / Boughton nr. Stoke Ferry / Buchetuna / Buckton

Blomedfield (1805-1810) writes: "B[uckton], or B[oughton], Called Buchetuna in Domesday [...] The Church is dedicated to All-Saints, and is an ancient building, built of flint and boulder; the nave is about 36 feet in length, and about 23 in breadth, covered with thatch; at the west end stands a four square tower of the aforesaid materials, embattled, with quoins &c. ornamented with 4 pinnacles of free stone; on this a spire of wood covered with lead: this tower was erected about the year 1416, when John Elvered, rector of Oxburgh, left, by will, 3s. 4d. to the new tower here, in which hang 3 bells. The chancel is in length about 25 feet, and in breadth about 16, covered with thatch, &c. and the communion table is railed in. On the top of the spire was a cross, which, in 1644, was taken down [...] Roger de Hingham, rector here in the reign of Henry III.[i.e., 1216-1272] gave considerable lands to the abbey of West Derham, with his body to be buried there." The present font is modern (19th-century?), of 13th-century design, a cylindical basin raised on three columns with moulded capitals and bases. The wooden cover round and flat, with metal ring handle; also modern, probably Victorian as well. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].