Kings Norton St John the Baptist
Perhaps the most beautiful church in the midlands region and one of the finest parish churches in the whole of the England. This Gothic Revival Church started in 1760 was completed in 1761 by John Wing the Younger of Leicester and it is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture. But let us start as I always do with some background information. After the Norman Conquest in 1066 the manor of Kings Norton passed to the Earls of Leicester,...
Kimcote Church All Saints
Kimcote and Walcote have a combined population of around 550 according to the 2001 census. These two villages although separate have very close links and are 12 miles south of Leicester and 9 miles west of Harborough. The nearest town is Lutterworth which is just a few miles away. Walton once had a chapel dedicated to St James but this probably fell into disuse and was no longer used after 1630, as far as I am aware there are no...
Kilby Church St Mary Magdalene
Kilby is 6 miles south-east of Leicester and is a small village of around 300 people. Kilby is in the Domesday Book as ‘Cilebi’ but the name of the village is probably Danish in origin as denoted by the ‘by’ at the end of name. The manor of Kilby may have belonged to nearby Wistow in earlier times, it is recorded that in the 19th century much of the village was part of the Wistow estate and many of the workers...
Kibworth Church St Wilfrid
The two villages of Kibworth Harcourt and Kibworth Beauchamp are some 8 miles south-east of Leicester. The busy A6 separates the two villages which are so close together we may as well call them ‘Kibworth’ for the rest of this text. There is only one church and that is St Wilfrid’s although there are two parishes. Population in 2001 for both villages was around 4,800. There are plans to expand the village with large...
Keyham Church & Ingarsby Deserted Village
Keyham in Leicestershire is a small village approximately 7 miles east of Leicester with a population of around 120. The church of All Saints dates from around the 13th century and consists of a nave, chancel and west tower. It is a small church but pleasantly proportioned. The nave and chancel probably date to the 13th & 14th centuries with the tower being added in the 15th century. The tower has a fleuron frieze below the...
Launde Abbey
Originally a Augustinian priory which was built between 1119 and 1125 by Richard Bassett, at the Dissolution it passed to Thomas Cromwell who built a mansion on the ruins. It passed through several hands and the house here today dates from the 17th century with some earlier fabric and some modernisation mostly from the 19th century. The house was donated to the Diocese in 1958 by a wealthy Leicester industrialist for the original...
Leire Church St Peter
This entry is probably going to have to be ‘short & sweet’, my usual sources for information have little on Leire or the church of St Peters that sits in the middle of the village. Most of this information has come from the Leire.net site. The village has a population of around 500 and is 10 miles south-east of Leicester. The village name may derive from the old British name for the Soar, a tributary of which has its...
Laughton Church St Luke
Situated some 5 miles west of Market Harborough in the south-east of the county the small village of Laughton is recorded in 2001 as having a population of only 80. The Laughton Hills to the south of the village rise to over 550ft and there are some good walks around the area. Its nearest neighbours are Gumley and Moseley with also Foxton and Saddington Reservoir to the north nearby. The village was recorded in the Domesday Book of...
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