Empingham / Amplingeham / Empingeham / Epingeham / Epingham / Hempingham

There are three entries for Empingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9508/empingham/] [accessed 22 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The church is mainly of 13th-century date, with additions and alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries, but has developed from an aisleless 12thcentury building the nave of which covered the same area as the present nave and of which the angles remain. [...] The font dates from 1895, and is in the style of the 14th century. [...] The original font had been replaced at some time unknown by 'a plain stone pillar with a small basin on the top.'" [NB: we have no information on either of the missing fonts; the present font is, as indicated above, of 14th-century design, octagonal and monolithic, with deeply carved crocketed arches or niches on the sides; it is located at the west end of the south aisle].