Huncote / Honecote / Hountecote

There is an entry for Huncote [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5197/huncote/] [accessed 13 August 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. A chapel dedicated to St. James in Huncote is reported in Campbell's Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores: Or ..., (vol. 60, Issue 2, 1877: 467). A report by Patrick Clay, of the Archaeological Unit, Leicestershire, to the Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeology and History Society [www.leicestershirevillages.com/uploads/clayvolumelxv_2sm1.pdf] [accessed 13 August 2015], notes the excavation of a "very substantial" building believed to have been a chapel of ease to nearby Narborough parish church; the excavated site lies about 50 m. southeast of the present Church of St. James the Greater, a Victorian building of 1898; Clay (ibid.) notes that the first recorded reference to the old chapel is dated to 1143, when it was donated to Leicester Abbey; the chapel was reported "ruinated and decayed" in 1622. Clay (ibid.) notes a reference by locals collected in The Leicester Mercury of 1954 "that the ruins of the chapel were still visible in the early 19th century". Clay (ibid.) further suggests that some of the granite used in the Victorian church of St. James may well have been part of the foundations of the old chapel. The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland has registers of baptisms from 1599.