Buckminster No. 2

INFORMATION

Font ID: 10677BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted on the right side of the porch
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist,_Buckminster
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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 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