Queniborough / Cuinburg / Queneborow

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12374QUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Queniborough
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Queniborough
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 13th-14thC church but parts of the fabric may be considerably earlier, late Saxon or early Norman
Church Address: Main St [aka Croxton Rd], Queniborough, Leicester LE7 3DA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1664 420193
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the Croxton Rd [aka Main St], E of the A607 [aka Melton Mowbray Rd], 12 km NE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? [cf. FontNotes]
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". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK6508012068] notes: Parish Church. Largely late C13 to early C14, but with parts of the fabric considerably earlier [...] Plain font, probably C13: a heavy round basin on a round stem." The entry for this church in Charnwood [https://www.charnwood.gov.uk/listed_buildings/church_of_st_mary_main_street_queniborough] [accessed 30 June 2025] notes: "Plain front [sic], probably C13: a heavy round basin on a round stem" but states that, although the main fabric of the present church is 13th-14thC church, parts of the fabric may be considerably earlier, late Saxon or early Norman [cf. supra].
[NB: we have an unknown/not recorded report that the 13th-century baptismal font is presumed disappeared].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part I, p. 512 and pl. liii / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 27 September 2007]