Buckminster No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 10677BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B676, 10-12 km ENE of Melton Mowbray, 15-20 km SSW of Grantham, just W of the county border with Lincolnshire
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted on the right side of the porch
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
Noted in Fowler (1876a) as a holy-water stoup of the Early English period wall-mounted on the right side of the porch. [cf. Index entry for Buckminster No. 1 for a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Trollope, Edward, "Notes on the Churches, &c., visited by the Society from Grantham on the 16th and 17th June, 1875", XIII, part I, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1876, pp. 1-28; p. 24