Quorn No. 1 / Quorndon

No entry found for Quorn in the Domesday survey. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK5611716589] (1966) reports an octagonal font of the Perpendicular period in this church. The Quorn Village Museum [www.quornmuseum.com] [accessed 19 August 2015] notes: "The earliest mention of the Church is that Ranulf, 4th Earl of Chester left the church at Barrow with its chapel at Quorn to Leicester Abbey in his will of 1153. The original building is about 800 years old and up to 1868 was a chapelry under the mother church of Barrow-upon-Soar. [...] More settled times followed the restoration of the monarchy (1660) which enabled the wardens at last to collect funds to restore the "decaying and very much ruined chapel". One landowner, Francis Harris, refused to pay more than one shilling. He took lead from the roof and broke up the font, doing serious damage." [NB: was this the font from the original church? ever repaired?]. The Quorn Village Museum has an on-line 'Brief Historical Tour' [www.quornmuseum.com/artefacts/pdf/938.pdf] [accessed 19 August 2015] that mentions the present font: "the bowl is relatively modern, but the base is believed to date from the seventeenth century". [cf. Index entry for Quorn No. 2 for the composite font in this church].