Kibworth Harcourt / Cliborne

INFORMATION

Font ID: 19990KIB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of Kibworth Harcourt [disappeared]
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC chapel of ease here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Kibworth [Harcourt] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6894/kibworth-harcourt/] [accessed 13 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "Kibworth ancient parish consisted of three townships, Kibworth Beauchamp, Kibworth Harcourt, and Smeeton Westerby. So far as can be discovered, each parish has always formed a separate unit for civil purposes. Ecclesiastically, all three townships were included in Kibworth Beauchamp parish, though Kibworth Harcourt possessed its own chapel from the 13th to the early 16th centuries." [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval chapel here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 635605 5824500

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.