Queniborough / Queneborow

INFORMATION

FontID: 12374QUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the Melton Mowbray road, 12 km NE of Leicester
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
Upcott (1818) notes and illustrates a font in this church. A Meeting of Lincoln and Northampton Societies recorded in The Ecclesiologist (vol. xiv, February 1853: 211) notes: "The ancient font in the Early English style [...] received much attention". [NB: we have an unknown/not recorded report that the 13th-century baptismal font is presumed disappeared].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818