Melton Mowbray / Medeltone

There is an entry for Melton [Mowbray] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7519/melton-mowbray/] [accessed 19 August 2015]; it mentions two priests, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. Allen (1839?) writes: "The inscription is ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ (Lord) wash my sin and not my face only,) it will be readily perceived that this Greek inscription reads either backward or forward. This monostich appear to have been adopted from the Greek church. It is, or was to be seen, on the font of the basiilica of St. Sophia at Constantinople. In this country its occurrence is frequent, in particular on the covers of the fonts at Dulwich College, and Worlingworth church Suffolk, a festive basin at Trinity College Cambridge, on the font at Harlow in Essex, and at Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and in France on a marble benitier in the church of Notre Dame, and the fonts at St. Stephen d'Egres at Paris, and in that of St. Menin's Abbey near Orleans." Poole (1842) reports the Greek inscription on the font [but, is it?] Described in Bond (1908) as one of several baptismal fonts on which the Greek palindrome "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ" appears in an inscription ("Cleanse your sin, not your face only"). Ditto Cox & Harvey (1907). Not in Pevsner (1984). [NB: although the earlier parts of the St Mary's date to the Early English period, the present font is probably from the G.G. Scott renovation of 1865-1869 -- we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]