Kimberley / Chineburlai / Kimburle / Kimburley

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church, is dedicated to St. Peter; in Henry the Third's time [i.e., 1216-1272], William, son of Wluric, was rector", and reports a later vicar, incumbent in 1396, John Barker of Thugarton, as being "buried by the font step, in 1400." Knott (2006) informs that the font here was replaced at the time of the 1870s renovation of the church. The present font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with cusped panels on the sides, raised on an octagogal pedestal base with arches on the sides; raised on an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover, probably of the same Victorian period, is an octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises. [NB: the font mentioned in Blomefield [cf. supra], at the foot of which a vicar was buried in 1400, no longer exists, and we have no other information on its end].