The Chapel at Knightwick today was superceded by the above church, shown here in ink and wash painting (Many thanks to Peter Walker - now Church Warden of the Knightwick, Doddenham and Broadwas Parishes)

This painting of the original Knightwick church is more rustic looking than the previous one.

The site of the the original Knightwick church was on a small hill about a mile to the east of Knightsford Bridge. It was an old black and white timbered structure with a fine wooden porch, and was pulled down by John Francis Greswolde-Williams in 1879, and a mortuary chapel built on its site in the churchyard. On the floor of the chapel is a portion of the circular bowl of a 12th-century font with wide lines of zigzag ornament. On the west walls are slabs from the previous church to Grace and Dorothy Lane of Bentley, Staffordshire, who died in 1721, and are said to be sisters of Jane Lane, who did so much to secure the escape of Charles II after the battle of Worcester.

There is one bell in a western bellcote. The plate consists of a silver cup of 1676, inscribed 'Knightwick Chalice 1676,' a cover paten of the same date, a paten of 1874, a flagon of 1882, a bread-knife with an agate handle, a plated almsdish, a pewter almsdish, and one of tin There is no separate plate for Doddenham.
The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) baptisms 1539 to 1687, burials 1617 to 1687, marriages 1542 to 1684; (ii) baptisms 1695 to 1812, burials 1702 to 1812, marriages 1695 to 1753; and (iii) marriages 1756 to 1811.

 

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