Knossington / Nossitone

There are two entries for Knossington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8008/knossington/] [accessed 4 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "The church of Knossington was first mentioned in 1199 [...] Throsby, visiting the church in 1790, thought that the chancel was older than the rest and that there were some remains of 'the oldest Gothic'. [...] The font probably dates from the early 13th century. It consists of a curious bulbous bowl having four attached shafts curved to its shape. The bowl is supported on a circular stem and four circular shafts, the latter replaced by red marble in the 19th century". Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. C13. Hemispherical bowl with four corner projections." Both the old font and a later-date stoup are noted in a communication from Aidan McRae Thomson: "a plain but attractive old font on restored shafts, and an unusual font-like Georgian water stoup in the porch" [25 January 2012 in https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/churchpictures/conversations/messages/33812 [accessed 4 September 2015].