Kinlet / Chinlete / Kynleth / Kynlett

INFORMATION

FontID: 16355KIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4363, 13 km S of Bridgnorth, WNW of Kiddeminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Medieval
Anderson (1864) writes: "From the French chronicle of Wigmore, we learn that Kinlet church was given by John de Brompton to that abbey (1179)". Newman & Pevsner (2006) report "a lavish set" of fittings from the 1892-1893 restoration of the church by J. Aldrid Scott, among which a neo-Norman font. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the early church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 539673 5807543

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006