Kirby Bellars / Cherchebi / Chirchebi / Kirkby Belers / Kirby Bellows

There are two entries for Kirby [Bellars] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7117/kirby-bellars/] [accessed 17 August 2015], one of which mentions two priests in it, but not a church, though there probably was one here. A font here is noted in Gough (1792): "hexagon, on a shaft and two pillars, the other side supported by a block." Listed in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal font. The font is mentioned in The Gentleman's Magazine (issue for October 1857, p. 444), with reference to a metting of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society in August 1857: "The font has not had its base restored, but the upper part has been erected on a plain slab. It was first fixed on alabaster, but afterwards that was exchanged for freestone." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK7178918239] (1968) report only a "Late C20 octagonal font" in this church. Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kirby-bellars-st-peter/] [accessed 17 August 2015] notes: "the font in the south aisle looks Victorian".