Clipston / Clipestone / Clipestune

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12284CLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Clipston
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526433
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 1 Church Ln, Clipston, Market Harborough LE16 9RW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7478 358220
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4036, just N of the A14, 7-8 km S of Market Harborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Stotfold [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: abandoned font / disused font / restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Noted in Mee (1945): "there is little left of the original [church] except [...] and the old font which the parson found in the churchyard". Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 17 October 2006]