Leesthorpe / Luuestorp

INFORMATION

FontID: 01653LEE
Church/Chapel: Chapel [of ease to Pickwell] [disappeared after 1642]
Church Location: [disappeared church; exact location unknown]
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Present Leesthorpe is located off (S) of the A606, NE of Pickwell, 7 km S of Melton Mowbray
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
There is an entry for Leesthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7913/leesthorpe/] [accessed 9 September 2015], and it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "A chapel, no doubt dependent on the church at Pickwell, was mentioned in the hamlet of Leesthorpe in the early 14th century; [...] it was 'decayed' in 1642, [...] and no more is known of it." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Domesday-time church/chapel here]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 646448 5842494

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-09-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.