Knipton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13131KNI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17541512
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A607, 16 km NNE of Melton Mowbray, about 10 km SW of Grantham
Font Notes:
The parish register records the use of a 'bason', probably meaning a metal basin which was inserted in the font, like a liner, and actually used to hold the holy water: "In 1694-5 is a note concerning the font. 'Thomas the son of Jonathan Waite & Alice his wife was baptised February the 14th (being then - months old and his mother then churched and was the first baptized in the bason provided by Daniel Walton to be set in the Font as an Apppurtenance thereunto'" [source: http://www.jillsfamilyancestry.co.uk/Part_2_Millhou/Parish_and_Pla.html [accessed 24 September 2007]. The font is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818)

REFERENCES

  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, p. 495 and pl. xxxii, fig. 5 / [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 23 September 2007]