Bovingdon / Bovyndon

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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St Lawrence Church, Bovingdon. Although there has been a church here since the 13th century, St Lawrence did not become a separate parish until 1833. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1845 with the exception of the lower part of the walls of the west tower. Among earlier memorials that have survived is the effigy of a knight in full armour of about 1400 lying on a tomb-chest, several 17th century floor slabs in the chancel and brasses of the same period."

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Lawrence Church, Bovingdon. Although there has been a church here since the 13th century, St Lawrence did not become a separate parish until 1833. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1845 with the exception of the lower part of the walls of the west tower. Among earlier memorials that have survived is the effigy of a knight in full armour of about 1400 lying on a tomb-chest, several 17th century floor slabs in the chancel and brasses of the same period."

Image Source: photograph taken in 1994 by D Gore [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/939362] [accessed 14 September 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: photograph taken in 1994 by D Gore [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/939363] [accessed 14 September 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 20733BOV

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [originally a chapel of ease to Hemel Hempstead [cf. FontNotes]]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Church Lane, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire HP3 0LU

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Hemel Hempstead

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Danish -- Hundred of Dacorum

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early English

Font Notes: Click to view

No entry found in the Domesday survey for Bovingdon. In its entry for Hemel Hempstead the Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "When a vicar was instituted in the parish church in 1235, it was ordered that he must serve the chapels of Bovingdon and Flaunden by means of two fit chaplains. He must keep in good state the books, ornaments and churchyards of the church and chapels; and 20s. annually were allowed to him for the sustenance of the chaplain of Bovingdon. (fn. 281) The vicar still nominated and provided the chaplains in 1638 […] The living of Bovingdon is a vicarage in the gift of five trustees." These descriptions appear to indicated that the church/chapel-of-ease at Bovington dispensed the sacraments and had burial rights as well [e.g., "Bovingdon church is the burial-place of Edmund Staunton, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was appointed president in 1648", VCH (ibid.)], but we have no information on the font of the church here. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL0171703717] (1986) notes: "Octagonal panelled font with instrument of the Passion", but it is probably the one introduced in the Thomas Talbot Bury restoration of 1845.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.72281, -0.529067

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 43′ 22.12″ N, 0° 31′ 44.64″ W

UTM: 30U 670664 5733099

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.