Kneesworth / Cnesworth

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20601KNE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Church od St. Mary Magdalen [redundant mid-16thC] [disappeared
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Notes: original 13thC chapel redundant by mid-16thC; disappeared
Church Address: [NB: the old chapel was located NW of Kneesworth Hall; no physical evidence of it remains]
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The hamlet [and former civil parish] of Kneesworth is located just E of Bassingbourn, 3 km NNW of Royston, 16 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Ely]
Historical Region: Hundred of Armingford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC chapel here)
Font Notes:
No individual entry found for Kneesworth in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Cambridge, vol. 8, 1982) notes: "Kneesworth had a chapel of its own by 1275, [...] probably that recorded in 1254 under Bassingbourn, [...] into which the hamlet was eventually absorbed for ecclesiastical purposes. [...] The chapel of ST. MARY MAGDALEN, so named in 1439, [...] presumably stood on the site still called in 1795 the Chapel yard, c. ½ km. north-west of Kneesworth Hall. [...] The chapel fabric, except for its 3 little bells and lead roof, was sold by the Crown in 1549 [...] and had long been decayed by the 1630s. [...] By 1800 all that remained was a stone doorway incorporated into farm buildings."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 701517 5773739

REFERENCES

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