Education
Knell was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and ordained in 1929.
Knell was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and ordained in 1929.
Beginning his ministry with a curacy at Street Barnabas, Southfields he was successively: Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln. Priest in charge of the Trinity College, Oxford, Mission in Stratford. Vicar of Emmanuel, Forest Gate, then Christ Church, Reading.
And finally, before his elevation to the Episcopate, Archdeacon of Berkshire.
In 1972 he retired to Lingfield and continued to serve the Church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Oxford.